Detection of the parasite Ribeiroia ondatrae in water bodies and possible impacts of malformations in a frog host
This study devised a method to detect Ribeiroia ondatrae (class Trematoda) in water-bodies using environmental DNA (eDNA) collected from filtered water samples from selected ponds in the USA and Canada. Species-specific PCR primers were designed to target the Internal Transcribed Spacer-2 (ITS-2) re...
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/21697 |