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Spiders inspired biologists to create artificial webs to capture airborne DNA for biodiversity monitoring

By Angela (Ang) McGaughran, Senior Lecturer in Population Genomics, University of Waikato
Manpreet K Dhami, Senior Researcher in Molecular Ecology, Bioeconomy Science Institute
Natural spiderwebs are good at capturing DNA from the environment, but artificial webs are cheap and provide better control – without harm to spiders.The Conversation


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