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11/10/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/10/2023 02:53

Using DNA to understand river diatom communities

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Using DNA to understand river diatom communities

Applies recent developments in DNA data analysis to aide our understanding of river diatom communities.

From:Environment AgencyPublished10 November 2023
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This project applied recent developments in DNA data analysis to an existing dataset to see if improvements could be made in the match between ecological classifications obtained using light microscopy and those from DNA, and to explore the potential to extract additional information from the DNA data.

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