{"id":1562,"date":"2023-04-27T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:22:18","slug":"airborne-environmental-dna-edna-%f0%9f%a7%ac-%f0%9f%a6%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) \ud83e\uddec \ud83e\udd87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cool new environmental DNA (eDNA) paper where the researchers (Garrett et al. 2023) used airborne DNA to detect bats in their roosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Title: <em>Out of thin air: surveying tropical bat roosts through air sampling of eDNA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OA \ud83d\udd17 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/14772\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/14772\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the detected bats (some rather rare) are known from previous work in the area. The authors also note non-target eDNA that likely drifted into some roosts (e.g. cow eDNA). However in some cases the non-target eDNA detections likely were from species actually associating with bats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>eDNA is a great method for detecting hard-to-access species, and this is a good demonstration of its utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2023\/04\/fig-2-2x-2-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" width=\"655\" height=\"935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2023\/04\/fig-2-2x-2-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2023\/04\/fig-2-2x-2-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2023\/04\/fig-2-2x-2-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2023\/04\/fig-2-2x-2.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><figcaption>Fig. 2 from the linked page showing the bat species that the authors detected using eDNA methodology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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 \ud83d\udd17 https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/14772\/ All of the detected bats (some rather rare) are known from previous work in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/?p=1562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) \ud83e\uddec \ud83e\udd87&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huber.opened.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}