Is mammal DNA in the guts of blowflies a feasible mammal monitoring tool?
Friday, June 3, 2016 - 07:21
in Biology & Nature
Mammal DNA detected from the guts of blowflies indicated the presence of 11 mammal species at two tropical forest reserves in Malaysia. This new tool could soon join the list of conventional mammal monitoring tools, such as camera traps, used by conservation biologists. The study has been published in the journal Genome.