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🚨 NEW coral eDNA PAPER 🚨🧬🪸
"Environmental DNA as a Tool for the Assessment of Coral (Anthozoa) Composition in the Chagos Archipelago"
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Environmental DNA as a Tool for the Assessment of Coral (Anthozoa) Composition in the Chagos Archipelago
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding using ITS2 markers reliably recovered 18 coral genera, with strong overlap but also complementary detections compared to benthic transect surveys. eDNA uniquely...