SciShow: eDNA: How Scientists See Hidden Animals

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Content of the Lesson: How do you track turtles that spend most of their time in muddy water and also look like rocks? It turns out, scientists have found a way to track such hidden animals using eDNA. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2664.12306 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-018-3750-5 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/11/4/50/htm https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0056584 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04886.x https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/77082 https://www.nies.go.jp/biodiversity/invasive/DB/detail/50310e.html https://www.env.go.jp/en/nature/as/02_English190111IAS_UAS_LORCA.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.02823.x https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-003-1396-z https://www.nies.go.jp/biodiversity/invasive/DB/detail/50310e.html https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8659(2001)130%3C0620:AATEPO%3E2.0.CO;2 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0041781 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0215586 http://bewildvirginia.org/wildlife-action-plan/pdf/2015-Virginia-Wildlife-Action-Plan.pdf https://nationalzoo.si.edu/news/smithsonian-scientists-use-edna-for-first-time-find-wood-turtles-virginia https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-017-1545-7 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05407.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981191/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4341 https://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/share/AquaticMammalsIssueArchives/2001/AquaticMammals_27-02/27-02_Ranneft.PDF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016953471400086X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320714004637 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Margaret_Hunter/publication/322512893_Surveys_of_environmental_DNA_eDNA_A_new_approach_to_estimate_occurrence_in_Vulnerable_manatee_populations/links/5aafcf480f7e9b4897c0cbbf/Surveys-of-environmental-DNA-eDNA-A-new-approach-to-estimate-occurrence-in-Vulnerable-manatee-populations.pdf https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/edn3.8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1111/j.1440-1703.2004.00634.x https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/eureka-lab/ISEF-2019-two-teens-pull-dna-birds-out-air Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/animal-track-vector-gm945212890-258173897 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoodTurtle.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitochondrial_DNA_lg.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecomare_-_bruinvis_Michael_in_2015_(bruinvis-michael2015-9313-sw).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilot_whale_spyhop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waldbachschildkroete-01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_Wood_Turtle_(6762045051).jpg


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