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The detection of great crested newts year round via environmental DNA analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, July 2017
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Title
The detection of great crested newts year round via environmental DNA analysis
Published in
BMC Research Notes, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13104-017-2657-y
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Authors

Helen C. Rees, Claire A. Baker, David S. Gardner, Ben C. Maddison, Kevin C. Gough

Abstract

Analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a method that has been used for the detection of various species within water bodies. The great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) has a short eDNA survey season (mid-April to June). Here we investigate whether this season could be extended into other months using the current methodology as stipulated by Natural England. Here we present data to show that in monthly water samples taken from two ponds (March 2014-February 2015) we were able to detect great crested newt DNA in all months in at least one of the ponds. Similar levels of great crested newt eDNA (i.e. highly positive identification) were detected through the months of March-August, suggesting it may be possible to extend the current survey window. In order to determine how applicable these observations are for ponds throughout the rest of the UK, further work in multiple other ponds over multiple seasons is suggested. Nevertheless, the current work clearly demonstrates, in two ponds, the efficacy and reproducibility of eDNA detection for determining the presence of great crested newts.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 16%
Researcher 13 14%
Student > Bachelor 11 12%
Other 6 7%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 21 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 31%
Environmental Science 17 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 16%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 4%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 22 24%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 April 2021.
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#1,267,342
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#141
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#27,465
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#6
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