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    Bacteria (soil) - UK / EU+

    Bacteria (soil) - UK / EU+

    SL-L-LB

    For use when sampling terrestrial soil in the UK, Liechtenstein, Switzerland or any of the 27 EU member countries. If you are not sampling in one of these countries, please choose the ‘outside UK / EU+’ option of this product, available from the soil collection page.

    Not for use with freshwater or marine water sediment. For sediment tests, please see our marine water sediment collection.

    For each product purchased, you will receive:

    • One sampling kit, to collect / store / transport your eDNA
    • One report per test ('assay')

    All soil tests can be used in terrestrial soil systems across the globe.

    UK / EU+ countries: UK, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and all 27 EU member countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

    Kit instructions available here.

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    Product info

    All items in an order will be processed and reported together. If you need some items to be reported separately, please place multiple orders.

    All items in an order can be shipped to only one location. If some items need to be shipped to a different location, please place a separate order for these items. (These items will be reported separately, as they are part of a separate order.)

    eDNA collection, storage and safe transport. Your kit contains all you need to collect*, store and safely transport your eDNA sample.
    (*Our tissue kits do not include the nets or traps you may wish to use to catch the organisms the kit is designed to contain.)

    Preservation buffer (which helps to preserve and protect the eDNA).

    One pair of gloves. If two or more people are using one kit, please purchase more sets of gloves (not available from NatureMetrics).

    Sterile bags for transporting your samples.

    For more info on all our kits, visit our kits page.

    For each test purchased, you will receive one report.

    e.g. if you buy x5 ‘vertebrate + fish (freshwater)’, you will receive two reports, one with all the vertebrate results from the 5 samples, and another, separate report, for all the fish results from the 5 samples.

    Reporting formats for multi-species tests and single-species tests are very different.
    For more info on reports, and to see examples of each, please visit our reports page.

    One kit = one sample = one location. Kits can be used in one location only. Only one single latitude / longitude can be assigned to each kit.

    Kits must be used within 12 months of purchase. After 12 months the preservation buffer can degrade. If you have aquatic kits, you can purchase replacement preservation buffer from us (not available from this store). To purchase, please contact us.

    Soil tests - key info:

    Detects communities such as nematodes, platyhelminths, annelid worms and some arthropods.

    Generally identifies to family or genus level.

    Detects indicator groups such as waxcaps*, 'CHEGD**' fungi, as well as the wider assemblages of ectomycorrhizal fungi, yeasts, and mushrooms. Generally identifies to family or genus level. Does not perform well for detecting arbuscular or orchid mycorrhizal fungi.

    *Nearly 90 per cent of all waxcap species are on one or more European national Red Lists for threatened fungi. 

    **CHEGD stands for: Clavarioids (spindles, club and coral fungi); Hygrocybe genus (waxcaps); Entoloma (pinkgills); Geoglossum and relatives (earthtongues); and Dermoloma and relatives (crazed caps).

    Assess the community composition of the microbiome of your sample. Detects 99% of the bacteria in your sample. Generally identifies to the taxonomic level of 'family' or higher.