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. 🧬🌊
Since then we have generated 22,494 TICI scores from around New Zealand, gaining a vivid picture of stream condition and #biodiversity across the country. SCIENCE! 😍
We have no idea which species many of these sequences belong to - but the average indicator value of the TICI sequences found in a sample gives an accurate measure of stream health...
The TICI, or taxon-independent community index, uses a learning algorithm to assign 'indicator values' to each of 3,000 commonly-detected eDNA sequences...
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...
Thanks for putting this together! Would love to be added to this list if poss 🙏
