@AllomeDNA

Biologist interested in fish conservation. Love working with brookies and Atlantic salmon, in particular. Also a pretty big fan of eDNA.

Windsor
Joined January 2020
Well folks, here’s my (hopefully) big one – the culmination (but not the end!) of an area of research I’ve been pursuing for awhile! We developed a framework to unify the relationships between eDNA, numerical abundance, and biomass: doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70073
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Well, first time I ever got an r^2 > 0.99! Just wanted to give a shout out to a new paper we published - my first senior author manuscript! We collected eDNA from ponds inhabited by invasive goldfish, and conducted paired sampling with DFO folks to compare independent results.
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We also caught goldfish using standardized fisheries methods and drained some of the ponds to get census counts. No surprise here from me, but we had a strong correlation between eDNA detection probability, eDNA concentration, and goldfish abundance!
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19) Amongst single-cellular organisms, ‘b’ will equal 0 since we expect eDNA to scale with numerical abundance (each cell contains ~approximately~ the same number of gene copies).
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20) But slope values for eDNA/biomass relationships will be higher for protists compared to bacteria due to their larger cell sizes.
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