How many organisms do live in this aquatic habitat?
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
The aim of this new measurement method is to estimate the distribution of aquatic animals using droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) in order to quantify the number of target DNA copies present. This method focuses on quantification accuracy for low environmental DNA (eDNA) concentrations, because the eDNA recovered for target species from field samples typically occur in very low concentrations. This technique can be applied for habitat research on rare or non-native species in the field.