Matching a snail's pace: successful use of environmental DNA techniques to detect early stages of invasion by the destructive New Zealand mud snail.

ABSTRACT: Early detection of invasive species allows for a more rapid and effective response. Restoration of the native ecosystem after an invasive population has established is expensive and difficult but more likely to succeed when invasions are detected early in the invasion process. Containment efforts to prevent the spread of known invasions also benefit from earlier knowledge of invaded sites. Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques have emerged as a tool that can identify invasive species at a distinctly earlier time point than traditional methods of detection. Here, we focus on whether eDNA techniques can be successfully applied to detect new invasions by the destructive New Zealand Mud Snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (NZMS). It is an opportune time to apply eDNA-based detection in P. a

SUBMITTER: Woodell JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8166578 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature