Environmental DNA in rivers offers new tool for detecting wildlife communities

Ecologists in England and Scotland, collaborating with ecologists Christopher Sutherland and Joseph Drake at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, report this week on a new method of identifying an “entire community of mammals”—including elusive and endangered species that are otherwise difficult to monitor—by collecting DNA from river water.


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Source: Phys.org