Environmental DNA captured on the fish skin mucus – a potential bias to molecular diet analyses
Molecular diet analyses from faeces appear to be an ideal alternative to traditional feeding ecology studies. Nevertheless, this method can carry a risk of contamination from the environment or from body surface of the fish itself. To tackle the contamination problem, an experiment was performed wit...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2023-01-01
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Series: | Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems |
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Online Access: | https://www.kmae-journal.org/articles/kmae/full_html/2023/01/kmae220087/kmae220087.html |