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A tiny drop of water is all that's needed to find threatened frogs

New James Cook University research has used highly sensitive environmental DNA (e-DNA) techniques to find two species of threatened frogs in places they've never been seen before—and find another still struggling to recover from past…

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New research from James Cook University applied highly sensitive environmental DNA methods to detect two threatened frog species in locations where they had not previously been observed, and also identified a third species still recovering from earlier disease outbreaks. The findings appear in the journal Conservation Science and Practice.

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