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Credit: Share Imagine discovering that an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living without even laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis, whose complete disappearance in 1968 led scientists to believe it had become extinct. But through a novel genetic detection technique, it was rediscovered in 2020. Such discoveries are now possible, thanks to a new approach that recovers and reads the trace amounts of DNA released into the environment by animals. It’s called environmental DNA, or eDNA and it takes advantage of the fact that every animal sheds DNA into its environment via skin, hair, scales, feces or bodily fluids, as it moves through the world. ....
Imagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living - without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis, whose complete disappearance in 1968 led scientists to believe it had become extinct. But through a novel genetic detection technique, it was rediscovered in 2020. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Such discoveries are now possible thanks to a new approach that recovers and reads the trace amounts of DNA released into the environment by animals. It’s called environmental DNA, or eDNA - and it takes advantage of the fact that every animal sheds DNA into its environment via skin, hair, scales, feces or bodily fluids as it moves through the world. ....
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Disclosure statement Jessica Alice Farrell receives funding from the National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation, The Sea Turtle Conservancy, Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, the Save Our Seas Foundation and the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center Inc d/b/a Friends of Gumbo Limbo (a 501c3 non-profit organization). She is affiliated with the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience & Sea Turtle Hospital. David Duffy receives funding from the National Save The Sea Turtle Foundation, The Sea Turtle Conservancy, Florida Sea Turtle Grants Program, the Save Our Seas Foundation, the Welsh Government Sêr Cymru II and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. He is affiliated with the University of Florida and Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland. ....