Development of a novel method for identifying a wide variety of species from environmental DNA

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26550089
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Environmental and ecological symbiosis
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Sato Tetsuya 九州大学, 生体防御医学研究所, 助教 (00457425)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 生物多様性 / 環境DNA / 環境保全 / 次世代シーケンサー / ユニバーサルプライマー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Environmental DNA (eDNA), most likely derived from faces and so on, is detected in lakes and rivers. Although the eDNA can be used to investigate the types of organisms that live in the environment, a conventional method using species-specific primer sequences can only be identified limited species. In this study, by designing original universal primers, we successfully developed a new method to identify a wide variety of living species in the environment. The results in this study would be expected to the biodiversity survey and assessment.

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