Crown-of-Thorns Starfish & eDNA

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish & eDNA

Field trials confirm that the presence and concentration of Crown of Thorns Starfish (CoTS) on any coral reef can be determined from environmental DNA (eDNA) extracted from a small sample of local seawater.  This is a very promising advance. Until now the only way to...
Ichthyology, eDNA and barcoding

Ichthyology, eDNA and barcoding

Joseph DiBattista is a Research Fellow in the TrEnD Lab at Curtin University. Via a joint appointment, he is also Curator of the Ichthyology Collection at the Australian Museum (AM) and an AMRI researcher, based in Sydney. The AM’s Collection holds about 1.8 million...