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In the latest Editor’s Choice, read about an experiment that was carried out on tuna to assess DNA cross-contamination risk on board fishing and research vessels.
Next generation sequencing (NGS) genetic and genomic tools continue to gain popularity within fisheries science. The trend is partly due to growing accessibility as the cost of genetic sequencing continues to drop but also the increasing number of conclusions that can be made with genetic data. It is now possible to use genetic information to generate high-confidence estimates of an ecosystem’s biodiversity, an individual species’ age and provenance, and a stock’s genomic health, abundance, and delineation. The list of applications will continue to grow.
Paper title
Evaluating DNA cross-contamination risk using different tissue sampling procedures on board fishing and research vessels
Authors
Giulia Anderson, Jed I Macdonald, Joanne Potts, Pierre Feutry, Peter M Grewe, Marion Boutigny, Campbell R Davies, Jeff A Muir, Francois Roupsard, Caroline Sanchez, Simon J Nicol
