Con Alessia Rota, PhD candidate in Marine Sciences presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, presentiamo l'environmental DNA (DNA ambientale in italiano), un hot topic al momento. Che cos'è? Come può essere studiato? Come possiamo interpretarlo? Ascoltate questo episodio per scoprirlo.

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Suarez-Bregua, P. et al. (2022) Environmental DNA (eDNA) for monitoring marine mammals: Challenges and opportunities.

Valsecchi, E. et al. (2021). Ferries and Environmental DNA: Underway Sampling From Commercial Vessels Provides New Opportunities for Systematic Genetic Surveys of Marine Biodiversity.

Boyse, E. et al. (2023). Sampling from commercial vessel routes can capture marine biodiversity distributions effectively.

Rota, A. & Valsecchi, E. (2025). The Floating Lab: Standard Operational Procedure for Collecting and Filtering Seawater Samples from Operating Ferries for Environmental DNA

​​Valsecchi, E. et al. (2020) “Novel universal primers for metabarcoding eDNA surveys of marine mammals and other marine vertebrates

Valsecchi, E. et al. (2023). Playing “hide and seek” with the Mediterranean monk seal: a citizen science dataset reveals its distribution from molecular traces (eDNA).