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Shaun Wilkinson

@shaunwilkinson.bsky.social
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Founder and CEO @Wilderlab | making #eDNA fun and accessible | biodiversity, biosecurity, biomonitoring & bioinformatics | passionate about pies🍴

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Shaun Wilkinson @shaunwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Merry Christmas #eDNA friends! Here's a snippet of what we've been up to at #Wilderlab, including sponsoring community projects, launching new diet kits, and getting ISO 17025 acredited www.wilderlab.co.nz/campaigns/vi... Have a safe and happy holiday, and remember, eDNA actually is all around 🧬❄️
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Wilderlab gains ISO accreditation, launches new diet kit, and more
Welcome to the December 2024 edition of the eDNA extract. We’re happy to share some exciting updates with you as we wind up another immense year of eDNA development and discovery:
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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📑 #NewStudy: DiBattista et al. used #eDNA to examine seasonal variation of fish and other species on a tropical coral #reef. The richness of #fish species on the reef was highest in early spring (September 🐟), and early autumn (February 🪸) for cnidarians and sponges. 👀 buff.ly/41c1iON
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Mike Bunce @buncedna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
🧬🌊 it makes me happy to see #eDNA being rolled at scale. Well played Maarten De Brauwer and NSW government for the 1000+ samples in 2024. Kudos to #wilderlab for powering these kinds of studies. Looking forward to see the impact of eDNA in 2025. 🧬🌊
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Shaun Wilkinson @shaunwilkinson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Thanks @whysharksmatter.bsky.social I'd love to share this paper from earlier this year. We used tree-of-life #metabarcoding to train an #eDNA health index for rivers and streams, that doesn't rely on a reference database... article: peerj.com/articles/169... explore TICIs: wilderlab.co.nz/explore
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TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment
Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available. Morphology-based b...
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Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
The TICI (taxonomy-independent community index) paper from the Wilderlab is out! Correlate metabarcoding ASVs with invertebrate measurements from New Zealand rivers -> find which ASVs are linked with river health, generate a score from there! #eDNA peerj.com/articles/169...
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