Kits and tests connector

Which tests can be used with which kits? Scroll down for an overview.

For more info on each kit, visit our kits page

For more info on each test, visit our tests page.

One kit = one sample.

A maximum of 6 tests ('assays') can be purchased with each 'aquatic kit' / 'aquatic kit - for pump'. For all other kits (other than the Great crested newt kit (for UK licencing)), it's a maximum of 3 tests.

 

Aquatic kit / Aquatic kit - for pump

Multi-species ('metabarcoding') tests ('assays'):

  • Freshwater bivalves (excl. Unionid mussels)
  • Freshwater fish
  • Freshwater insects
  • Freshwater mammals
  • Freshwater Unionid mussels
  • Freshwater vertebrates
  • Marine water eukaryotes
  • Marine water fish
  • Marine water invertebrates
  • Marine water mammals
  • Marine water vertebrates

Single-species ('qPCR') tests ('assays'):

  • Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)
  • Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
  • Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii)
  • Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
  • Brown trout (Salmo trutta)
  • Burbot (Lota lota)
  • Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)
  • Chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)
  • Chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans)
  • Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
  • Dreissenid mussels (genus level)
  • European eel (Anguilla anguilla)
  • Great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) (not for UK licensing)
  • Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
  • Rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss)
  • Redside dace (Clinostomus elongatus)
  • Round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceaum)
  • Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus)
  • Silver shiner (Notropis photogenis)
  • White-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes)
  • Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)

 

Tissue kit:

Multi-species ('metabarcoding') tests ('assays'):

  • Marine bacteria (from tissue samples)
  • Marine eukaryotes (from tissue samples)
  • Terrestrial invertebrates (from tissue samples)
  • Freshwater invertebrates (from tissue samples)
  • Marine invertebrates (from tissue samples)

 

Soil (UK + EU) kit / Soil (outside UK + EU) kit

Multi-species ('metabarcoding') tests ('assays'):

  • Soil bacteria
  • Soil fungi
  • Soil invertebrates

 

Sediment kit / Estuarine & mangrove sediment kit (outside UK + EU) kit

Multi-species ('metabarcoding') tests ('assays'):

  • Marine sediment bacteria
  • Marine sediment eukaryotes
  • Marine sediment invertebrates