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 🧬❄️

📑 #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. 👀 https://buff.ly/41c1iON

🧬🌊 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. 🧬🌊

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

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...