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    Vertebrates (marine water)

    Vertebrates (marine water)

    AQ-A-MV

    Includes a hand-operated syringe, to push water through the kit’s filter. The filter collects and stores your eDNA.

    Looking to work with a powered pump, such as a Vampire Sampler? Please select instead the ‘pump’ version of this kit from the marine water collection.

     

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    What do I receive?

    For each product purchased, you will receive:

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

    Regional considerations

    All marine water and marine tissue sample tests can be used in marine water and estuarine systems across the globe.

    Kit instructions

    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.)

    Kit contents

    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.

    Reports

    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.

    Important info

    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.

    Marine water tests - key info:

    Vertebrates

    Detects fish, amphibians and mammals, generally to species level. Some closely related fish species, such as perch and zander cannot be separated.

    Terrestrial mammal eDNA can often end up in nearby water courses, so this test can have the added benefit of delivering detections for some terrestrial vertebrates.

    Results are often comprised of a high percentage of fish species (especially ray-finned fish, Actinopterygii) and can include marine mammals, and high (family) level identification for some bird species.

    Birds and reptiles can be detected, but this test should not be relied upon as a comprehensive test for these groups.

    Fish

    Optimised for ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) such as tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perch, anglerfish and pufferfish.

    This test does not perform as well for detecting sharks and rays.

    In some cases, this test does not provide species level data, e.g. river lamprey and brook lamprey; ide and dace.

    Mammals

    Detects aquatic and semi-aquatic mammals, and many terrestrial mammals who have visited the water or are nearby – as terrestrial mammal eDNA can often end up in nearby water courses, via runoff.

    Detection of terrestrial species can be sporadic as they are less likely to contact water and deposit eDNA. Detection of terrestrial species is dependent on the species either directly interacting with water and/or their eDNA being transported from other waterbodies/via runoff.

    Invertebrates

    Groups typically detected include crustaceans, tunicates, cnidarians (including jellyfish), annelids, molluscs, echinoderms, and sponges.

    May also detect some vertebrate species.

    When running this test on a tissue sample, please note: in order for it to be processed, the tissue must be larger than 0.3mm (300um).

    Eukaryotes

    Detects algae, macroalgae species (chlorophyta, phaeophyceae, rhodophyta), phytoplankton, zooplankton, protists, ciliates, dinoflagellates, diatoms, annelids, molluscs, crustaceans, tunicates, invertebrates and some cnidarians (including jellyfish) and sponges.

    Due to the broad nature of this test, detections will generally be assigned to family or genus level. Test excludes bacteria and archaea. Can sometimes detect vertebrates and fungi.

    When running this test on a tissue sample, please note: in order for it to be processed, the tissue must be larger than 0.3mm (300um).

    Bacteria (from tissue samples)

    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.

    Can be purchased only in addition to either the eukaryotes from tissue samples or invertebrates from tissue samples tests. (We process the bacteria attached to other organisms in the sample.)