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UF researchers first in the world to collect sea turtle eDNA - The Independent Florida Alligator

UF researchers first in the world to collect sea turtle eDNA - The Independent Florida Alligator
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Environmental DNA - How A Tool Used To Detect Endangered Wildlife Ended Up Helping Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic


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.
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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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