Environmental DNA – how a tool used to detect endangered wildlife ended up helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic
- Written by Jessica Alice Farrell, PhD Candidate in Biology, University of Florida
Looking for bits of DNA at the University of Florida.David Duffy, CC BY-NDImagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living – without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis, whose complete disappearance in 1968 led scientists to believe it had become...