Our perspective paper about the potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA research has finally been published! Epi-eDNA is still technically challenging, but I think it has huge potential: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The potential of methylation signal detection in eDNA toward functional ecological monitoring - Communications Biology
A Perspective introduces meth-eDNA, using DNA methylation in environmental DNA to infer population traits. Emerging methods could enable noninvasive inference of age, sex ratio, reproduction and stres...