Scientists overcome inaccessibility of caves through molecular genetic approach
Monday, March 27, 2017 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
An international group of scientists has used a novel highly sensitive method for detection of environmental DNA in groundwater to extend the poorly known range of the rare subterranean amphibian from the Dinaric Karst. With this highly sensitive non-invasive method they discovered 12 new localities of the olm (Proteus anguinus).