An Environmental DNA Primer for Microbial and Restoration Ecology

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing—DNA collected from the environment from living cells or shed DNA—was first developed for working with microbes and has greatly benefitted microbial ecologists for decades since. These tools have only become increasingly powerful with the advent of metabarcoding an...

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Published in:Microbial ecology 2023-04, Vol.85 (3), p.796-808
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