Environmental DNA: a new low-cost monitoring tool for pathogens in salmonid aquaculture.
Lucy Peters, Sofie Spatharis, Maria Augusta Dario, Toni Dwyer, Inaki J. T. Roca, Anna H. Kintner, Øyvind Kanstad-Hanssen, Martin Stephen Llewellyn, Kim Præbel
This study evaluates the accuracy and cost-effectiveness of Ion Torrent sequencing for eDNA monitoring in aquaculture, finding it comparable to Illumina for detecting pathogens and microalgae.
Frontiers in Microbiology · Dec 6, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics