Persistence of marine fish environmental DNA and the influence of sunlight.

Harnessing information encoded in environmental DNA (eDNA) in marine waters has the potential to revolutionize marine biomonitoring. Whether using organism-specific quantitative PCR assays or metabarcoding in conjunction with amplicon sequencing, scientists have illustrated that realistic organism c...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A Andruszkiewicz, Lauren M Sassoubre, Alexandria B Boehm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185043