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Field Sleuths: The Amateur Naturalists Who Are Discovering New Species

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Yale Environment 360

Publication Date
2019-03-12

When mushroom hunter Terri Clements found a unique specimen near her home in Arizona, she couldn’t be certain by its appearance that she’d stumbled across a new species. She tracked down a commercial lab that would process DNA from samples she collected and studied the resulting sequences.

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https://e360.yale.edu/features/field-sleuths-the-amateur-naturalists-who-are-discovering-new-species