{"id":4437,"date":"2021-03-14T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/benefits-of-using-environmental-dna-for-species-identification\/"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:50:05","slug":"benefits-of-using-environmental-dna-for-species-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/benefits-of-using-environmental-dna-for-species-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of using Environmental DNA for Species Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide a tool to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the restocking method<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evaluate the cost-benefit of the resources spent<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generate data for dialogue with the environmental agency<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasing knowledge of the genetics of endemic fish species<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expand knowledge of the reservoir&#8217;s biological diversity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing information on cyanobacterial blooms and organisms of phytopathogenic interest to help improve the use of the reservoir for aquaculture and tourism activities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visualization of complex biodiversity data in a synthesized way<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other benefits of the environmental DNA methodology:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High speed: Analysis of each sample in up to 15 days allows real-time assessment of changes in the environment using its most integral and important parameter: biodiversity;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation and scaling for analysis of one or thousands of samples;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High confidence: the specificity and precision of DNA reduces the error rate of traditional taxonomy and resolves the ambiguities of morphological methods;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robustness: the large volume of data reduces uncertainty in statistical analysis;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Differentiation of literally ALL species present in the sample. DNA sequences with no matches in the databases are catalogued as Operational Taxonomic Units and, stored and identified by taxonomists, can be reanalyzed in the future;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of biodiversity profiles of risk and priority areas for conservation and preservation, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools and big data to generate georeferenced maps of correspondence, sensitivity and visualization of different parameters;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessing biodiversity by analyzing current and old samples stored in ice, alcohol or formaldehyde, which is virtually impossible using traditional methods;  <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documentation of biodiversity: inclusion of molecular markers of organisms from collections in databases;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freeing up taxonomists to do what is their exclusive responsibility: identify new species.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provide a tool to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the restocking method Evaluate the cost-benefit of the resources spent Generate data for dialogue with the environmental agency Increasing knowledge of the genetics of endemic fish species Expand knowledge of the reservoir&#8217;s biological diversity Providing information on cyanobacterial blooms and organisms of phytopathogenic interest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biobureau.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}