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Pollinator networks in nature

A team of our pollination researchers have recently published their results from a study about what drives structure and beta diversity in a plant–pollinator metacommunity from the Australian alpine region using two approaches: pollen DNA metabarcoding (MB) and observations.

dartR Version 2 release

The extensive improvements now available in dartR Version 2 makes it even easier to analyse large genomic datasets.

Environomics Newsletter October 2021

Read our latest newsletter, featuring research, people, the first eDNA conference and jobs.

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Recovery of good quality DNA from preserved specimens

Dr Erin Hahn, early career researcher with the Environomics FSP and colleagues, have recently published a paper documenting a simple screening method to identify preserved specimens likely to yield good quality DNA data.

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Non-lethal age estimation helps manage wild fish populations

Environomics early career researcher, Ben Mayne and colleagues, have published a new non-lethal method for determining the age of fishes.

Testing DNA in Australian honey reveals floral sources

Postdoctoral Fellow with the Environomics Future Science Platform at CSIRO, Dr Liz Milla, has been testing DNA in Australian honey and it reveals the main floral sources used by the bees.

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Environomics newsletter May 2021

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Understanding the function of marine microbes

While working as a postdoc with the Environomics Future Science Platfrom at CSIRO, Eric Raes and a team of researchers studied how microbial biodiversity in our oceans are related to energy production.

Uncovering the genomes of sea turtles

The team on this project will sequence the genomes of the five remaining sea turtle species whose genomes remain un-sequenced, including Australia's flatback turtle.

Making environmental DNA (eDNA) biodiversity records globally accessible

Read the recently published discussion of how to improve the storage and access to biodiversity data created from eDNA.