Wildlife Applications for eDNA Sampling with Contributions from Some of OBGP's Own

A recent article published in The Wildlife Society's November/December 2017 issue of The Wildlife Professional is coauthored by our very own Brooke Penaluna and highlights some of the work she has done with two more OBGP people: Rich Cronn and Laura Hauck. It's an exciting time for eDNA and Not Just for Fisheries Biologists Anymore: Environmental DNA Sampling Makes Strides in Wildlife provides an excellent overview of the field-to-lab eDNA pipeline. It also touches on potential applications for terrestrial wildlife. This is one of the reasons the OBGP is interested in developing a library of genomic material from all of Oregon's animal species. We don't know what the future holds so it makes sense for us to lay the groundwork for tool development targeting any and all of Oregon's animal species.