Predicting provenance of forensic soil samples: Linking soil to ecological habitats by metabarcoding and supervised classification.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly applied in ecological studies, including studies with the primary purpose of criminal investigation, in which eDNA from soil can be used to pair samples or reveal sample provenance. We collected soil eDNA samples as part of a large national biodiversity resea...

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Main Authors: Camilla Fløjgaard, Tobias Guldberg Frøslev, Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg, Hans Henrik Bruun, Jesper Moeslund, Anders Johannes Hansen, Rasmus Ejrnæs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202844