Molecular Scatology – PCR on poo reveals wader diets
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Pages
175 – 176
Published
1 December 16
Authors
Deborah M. Buehler
DOI
10.18194/ws.00052
Correspondence
Deborah M. Buehler
Outreach Editor, ‘Wader Study’ Research and Data Analyst, University of Toronto, Canada
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In Spotlight articles Deborah Buehler highlights a paper of each issue.
This time she discusses molecular scatology: the fusion of animal droppings with molecular lab techniques.
“My school-aged kids and their friends are obsessed with poo. They talk about it, point it out on hikes, and try to decipher what the animal that made the deposit had eaten. They are little scatologists. Turning our attention to poo can tell us a lot about an animal, especially when one applies modern technology to the science of scatology.”
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