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Global airborne bacterial community—interactions with Earth’s microbiomes and anthropogenic activities
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Airborne animal DNA could help biologists track endangered species
When you leave a zoo, you physically carry traces of the animals home with you. A pair of new studies, published together in the journal Current Biology, found that by simply filtering air around zoos, researchers could recover genetic material from surrounding animals. They didn’t just detect the captive animals, though—the teams captured environmental DNA‚…
Airborne DNA is being used to detect insect species, a breakthrough for ecologists
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Insect DNA has been gathered from the air and for the first time used to detect 85 insect species, according to scientists from Lund University in Sweden. Bees, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, and ants have been…
Risk of airborne transmission of avian influenza from wild waterfowl to poultry negligible
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Research by Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) has shown that the risk of airborne transmission of high pathogenic avian influenza virus from infected wild birds is negligible. The research looked specifically at the airborne movement of particles from wild waterfowl droppings in the vicinity of poultry farms during the risk season for…