Environmental DNA and epidemics in wood frogs: Collaboration examines eDNA's precision in population size estimation

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Oct 17, 2024, 3:21 pm855 ptsInterestingTop
Tracy Rittenhouse, associate professor of natural resources and the environment in UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR), was doing an experiment to study ranavirus epidemics in wood frogs. When Meghan Parsley, then a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, heard about it,…

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