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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This sort of thread is what makes Bluesky so nice :) also it highlights how nice it is to read about a topic by an expert who has spent their life working on a topic - I hear people say AI will replace review articles, but this thread shows all the nuance and depth that an expert brings.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What a great place to land and what a cool group to join - sounds like exciting things afoot and that there are options for positions :) check it out!

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

„If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research and validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge…“ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New study 🚨🚨🚨 Using fecal samples collected over 17 years, we tracked antibiotic resistance genes in wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park; one of the last remaining chunks of primary rainforests in West Africa. Study out now in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

A map labeled A showing the home ranges of the three neighboring chimpanzee groups, along with data on the time since the groups have been habituated to human observers labelled B, and graphs showing the accumulation of antimicrobial resistance genes and antimicrobial resistance classes in those chimpanzee groups labeled C and D.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Excited to be part of the Global Young Academy + join an interesting and daunting discussion about the challenges facing scientific enterprise. Many challenges, but inspiring group of scientists in @globalyacademy.bsky.social dreaming up solutions. Thanks Robbert Dijkgraaf for starting discussion!

Robbert Dijkgraaf standing at the podium in a large conference hall in front of a slide showing 6 pieces of a advice for young scientists.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Wohoo! Great news and congratulations!

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Nice discussion with @alicesunreports.bsky.social in @knowablemag.bsky.social on the potential of #eDNA, particularly invertebrate-derived DNA, to contribute to biomonitoring and studying disease ecology: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Amazing speed from the teams in Uganda and the DRC - impressive! Three genomes released so far - a few quick takes: 1️⃣ New genomes ~equidistant from 2007 and 2012 outbreaks. 2️⃣ Represents new spillover from reservoir. 3️⃣ Limited diversity, so too early to speculate on timing. Great work ⭐!

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A peer review credit system to incentivize reviewing and editing - seems like it could be worth a try?Paying reviewers actual money though, rather than a new credit seems reasoable too, especially given the profit margins of scientific publishers ;) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Bei #CiFly werden Schüler:innen zu Forschenden: Im Citizen Science-Projekt des @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social sammeln sie mit @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social Daten zu antimikrobiellen Resistenzen in Moorlandschaften - einem Schlüsselökosystem für Klima und Gesundheit: www.helmholtz-hzi.de/media-center...

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Greifswalder Schüler:innen starten mit Citizen Science-Projekt CiFly

Schüler:innen untersuchen im Rahmen des Projekts CiFly anliegende Moore in Greifswald und lernen damit Feldforschung kennen.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🌍 Guest Lecture at HIOH Prof. Lee White – conservationist, biologist & former Environment Minister of Gabon – speaks on: 🎤 “From science to global policy – Saving the Congo Basin’s rainforests” From field research to COP26, bridging science & policy - Join us for an inspiring talk! #OneHealth

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A new study in Nature Microbiology reveals that an eye condition called POH-VAU (persistent ocular hypertensive viral anterior uveitis) is caused by covert mortality nodavirus (CMNV) - a virus that's been devastating shrimp farms for over a decade. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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An emerging human eye disease is associated with aquatic virus zoonotic infection - Nature Microbiology

Covert mortality nodavirus, a pathogen previously known to cause important losses in shrimp aquaculture, is identified as being a potential causative agent of an emerging and severe ocular disease in ...

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Nice coverage by @kakape.bsky.social in @science.org of our preprint, where we present data showing orthopoxviruses, including MPXV, infect duikers, which are popular bushmeat in many mpox endemic regions. Highlights lots more about orthopoxvirus ecology to explore: www.science.org/content/arti...

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These small African antelopes may help mpox spread

Researchers find evidence that duikers, hunted and eaten across sub-Saharan Africa, can harbor the deadly virus

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data Organization in Spreadsheets
Karl W. Broman
& Kara H. Woo
Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018

1. Introduction
2. Be Consistent
3. Choose Good Names for Things
4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD
5. No Empty Cells
6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell
7. Make it a Rectangle
8. Create a Data Dictionary
9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files
10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data
11. Make Backups
12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors
13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files

ABSTRACT

Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

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Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Ariane Düx on successfully defending her dissertation! 🎓 A wonderful conclusion to years of intensive research—Thank you for your inspiring work and valuable contribution to research 🌟 All the best and continued success! #PhD #OneHealth #Research #Science #AcademicLife

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Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨 Hiwi-Job in der Wissenschaftskommunikation! Du studierst und hast Lust auf Social Media, Website, Gestaltung & Events? Dann unterstütze uns als studentische/wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (w/m/d). 👉 www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet... #HiwiJob #Greifswald #SciComm #OneHealth

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Eduardo Amorim @cegamorim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

Adapted from Axelsson et al. 2013 Fig 2c: Histogram showing the distribution of diploid amylase copy number in wolf (n=35, blue) and dog (n=136, red). Dogs carry more copies of the starch-digesting gene AMY2B than wolves. Additional copies make dogs better than wolves at digesting starchy foods like grains & vegetables.

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John Dennehy @drjdennehy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance "we capture the acquisition of a parasitic anti-phage mobile genetic element, PLE11, that initiated a selective sweep coinciding with the largest cholera outbreak in recent records. " www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance - Nature

The acquisition of a parasitic anti-phage mobile genetic element, PLE11, showing potent anti-phage activity against cocirculating ICP1, and the subsequent evolution of ICP1 to escape this defense, are...

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Friendly reminder that simply changing the search engine you use can contribute to forest #restoration efforts! A cool video highlighting our efforts in Uganda's Kibale National Park: youtu.be/gNQjGYqaN0w @ecosiasearch.bsky.social @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social

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How a “Problem” Plant Is Saving a Forest

YouTube video by Ecosia

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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are offering a Masters project with Benno Kreuels at the BNITM, with aim of developing #eDNA tools to monitor #snakes and help determine snake species involved with bites. Involves work with patient samples and combines lab experiments, bioinfo analyses, and testing international sample sets.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Now I try in German :) In all dem Chaos in der Welt: ein kleiner Lichtblick aus #MecklenburgVorpommern. Vor ein paar Wochen lud mich der ehemalige Bürgermeister von Weitenhagen (bei Greifswald) zu einem „Stammtisch“ ein – zum Kennenlernen und Reden.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In all the chaos that is happening in the world - a little sign of light from #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany. A few weeks ago the former mayor of Weitenhagen, a small village near Greifswald, reached out asking if I wanted to join him for a 'Stammtisch' to introduce myself and chat.

An invitation in German to a 'Stammtisch' in Weitenhagen, with a date and a time and a place to meet, with a guest invited (that was me) and a topic that they wanted to hear about.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Northern lights visible in Germany tonight :)

Splashes or green and red in the night sky over a house with glowing windows and door

Northern lights with neon green and red splashes.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The idea to prioritize slowing down to improve the quality of work resonates with me - both as a advisor, an editor, and a scientist. Here is hoping that his effort to slow down science and evaluate the impact of ideas and papers, rather than numbers and journal metrics, succeeds!

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A little follow up about this; adding amore eloquent critiques of the poor coverage of the original article by @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Don’t assume that women’s low retraction rates reflect male ‘boldness’

Letter to the Editor

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This makes so much sense - and at the same time makes me question some of my recent life choices ;)

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Come work with me and Anna Obiegala in Greifswald at the @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social and Friedrich Loeffler Institute! A PhD position working on ticks and their microbiomes and how those interaction with the environmental microbiome, and tickborne diseases. Fieldwork in the @bexplo.bsky.social!

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🦇 Two PhD positions available on our new ARC Discovery Grant: "From Diversity to Disease: Viral Ecology, Evolution and Persistence in Bats" The project will investigate how viral diversity evolves and persists, with a particular focus on recently discovered henipaviruses in Australian flying foxes.

The torso and head of a black flying fox hanging upside down, looking directly at the camera, above the words "PhD positions available in bat viral ecology and evolution".

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Women are underrepresented in first / last author positions of retracted medical papers. Shocked to see the hand wringing about potential mechanisms in the coverage of the work, trying desperately to turn this into a positive for men. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gender disparities among authors of retracted publications in medical journals: A cross-sectional study

Background Gender disparities in scientific authorship are well documented, yet little is known about gender representation among authors of retracted publications. Methods We analyzed 878 retracted...

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A PhD Position! Aim is to use pop-scale metagenomics to map global phage diversity and uncover evolutionary signatures that could point to new antimicrobials. Work with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social + Joanne Santini - two creative scientists who are also very fun to work with! tinyurl.com/phagehunt

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Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Mapping Phage Diversity through Population-Scale Metagenomics in the Hunt for Novel Antimicrobials at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Vampire bats may have contracted H5N1 bird flu in Peru, raising worries about further spread

Bats could form a bridge between marine and terrestrial mammals, scientists say

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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Große Phagen, kleine Phagen, Phagen aus Primatenkot... 💩Die Forschenden am @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social, @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social & HZI gehen in ihrer Bakteriophagen-Forschung an die Grenzen! @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social @jenshoer.bsky.social @gerovac.bsky.social @jangogarten.bsky.social #WAAW2025

Elektronenmikroskopische Aufnahme von Pseudomonas aeruginosa, infiziert mit dem Jumbophagen ΦKZ (rot).

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Greifswald Mire Centre @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

💦 Weiter geht’s in der Vortragsreihe „Neue Moorlandschaften“! Am 17. Nov, 18 Uhr spricht Dr. Tjorven Hinzke über: „Wer isst wen in wiedervernässten Mooren?“ 📍 @wiko-greifswald.bsky.social in #Greifswald oder online Mehr Info: tinyurl.com/wetscapes2

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"So far, eight suspected cases have been reported. Laboratory testing is ongoing at the Ethiopia Public Health Institute to determine the exact cause." Always worrying when viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak is suspected anywhere, definitely something to watch. #IDsky www.afro.who.int/news/ethiopi...

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Ethiopia reports suspected viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak

Health authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out further investigations and ramping up response after suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever were reported in the country’s South Ethiopia Region.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

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Early Career Rescue Fellowship

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Roman Biek @rbiek.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Come join us - we are recruiting a postdoc in phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to join an exciting project on foot-and-mouth-disease virus in African buffalo www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Please share widely! #jobs #disease #ecology #evolution #phylodynamics

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Research Assistant/Associate

Job Purpose You will contribute to an international collaborative project entitled “Multi-scale infection dynamics from cells to landscapes: FMD in African buffalo”, working with Prof Roman Biek. T...

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Jens Hör @jenshoer.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 Please RT!

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Jan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A paper for the #eDNA crowd, in particular those using flies for terrestrial biomonitoring. We show that massive pooling works well, reducing costs + time, bringing us a step closer to scalable terrestrial eDNA biomonitoring. doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

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An Exploration of DNA Extraction Methods of Fly iDNA for Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring

Metabarcoding of invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) is an excellent tool for assessing terrestrial mammal diversity, but the time and costs associated with sample processing constrain its wider adoption....

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