Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) 🧬 🦇

Here’s a cool new environmental DNA (eDNA) paper where the researchers (Garrett et al. 2023) used airborne DNA to detect bats in their roosts. Title: Out of thin air: surveying tropical bat roosts through air sampling of eDNA OA 🔗 https://peerj.com/articles/14772/ All of the detected bats (some rather rare) are known from previous work in … Continue reading Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) 🧬 🦇