News Headline

Highly localised and current DNA information on river animals

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2018-02-02

New research proves that environmental DNA survives for less than two days in small fast-flowing rivers and so provides highly localised and current information on species composition. This is crucial new evidence as biologists turn increasingly to new DNA sampling techniques to assess aquatic ecosystem health.

Content
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-highly-localised-current-dna-river.html