Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling improves occurrence and detection estimates of invasive Burmese pythons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hunter, Margaret E ^a   Oyler McCance, Sara J ^b   Dorazio, Robert M ^a   Fike, Jennifer A ^b   Smith, Brian J ^c   Hunter, Charles T ^d   Reed, Robert N ^b   Hart, Kristen M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA;

ARTICLE; BOA CONSTRICTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUNECTES MURINUS; EUNECTES NOTAEUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PYTHON MOLURUS BIVITTATUS; PYTHON SEBAE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BOIDAE; ECOLOGY; FLORIDA; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS;

BOA CONSTRICTOR; EUNECTES MURINUS; PYTHON MOLURUS BIVITTATUS; PYTHON SEBAE; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; DNA; ECOLOGY; FLORIDA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METAGENOMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84928910828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121655     Document Type: Article

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