Nature Portfolio Ecology and Evolution: Tracking an oncogenic sea turtle virus with Environmental DNA

Nature Portfolio Ecology and Evolution: Tracking an oncogenic sea turtle virus with Environmental DNA

Published: Friday, May 14, 2021

Congratulations to Whitney PhD student Jessica Farrell, Kelsey Yetsko and Dr. David Duffy for their article in Nature Portfolio Ecology and Evolution Community - Tracking an oncogenic sea turtle virus with eDNA.

How to better understand the role of an oncogenic virus in driving a debilitating sea turtle disease? By applying genomics to sea turtle tumor tissues and environmental DNA (eDNA) to rehabilitation tank water.

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