First Poop, Now Leeches | GenomeWeb

First Poop, Now Leeches

Apr 24, 2012

A team of researchers published a study last September describing efforts to measure the biodiversity of an area by collecting soil samples and sequencing the DNA from the various skin, scales, and waste samples present. Now, says Nature News' Ewen Callaway, researchers are collecting DNA from bloodsucking leeches to find DNA from a rare Asian antelope called the saola.

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