eDNA suggests Proteus lives in Montenegro

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eDNA suggests Proteus lives in Montenegro

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:42 am

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Re: eDNA shows Proteus lives in Montenegro

Postby Berislav Horvatic » Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:23 pm

Just POSSIBLE presence, so far.

"First evidence of the globally threatened cave amphibian species in Montenegro: traces of Proteus environmental DNA discovered in two karst springs."
• The springs Sopot (Boka Kotorska) and Izvor Grahovo 1 (Grahovo Polje) showed weak signals on (one positive signal in three replicates) only one of the genes and were negative in the rerun; they are therefore interpreted as suspicious for the presence of Proteus (possibly on the limit of detection, although we cannot completely exclude contamination)
• Šanik spring showed a week signal on the 16S rDNA gene only, and the signal was observed again in the rerun; this sample is interpreted as plausible to contain traces of Proteus eDNA. Here contamination is less likely as the signal was observed in independent runs.
See the full report:
http://www.cepf.net/SiteCollectionDocum ... rt_SCB.pdf
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Re: eDNA suggests Proteus lives in Montenegro

Postby Mario Schweiger » Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:36 am

Thanks Bero for the final report!
I've heared also from Rijeka Crnevica (although marked negative within the report map)?

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