• Non-invasive surveys of mammalian viruses using environmental DNA 

      Alfano, Niccolò; Dayaram, Anisha; Axtner, Jan; Tsangaras, Kyriakos; Kampmann, Marie-Louise; Mohamed, Azlan; Wong, Seth T.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Wilting, Andreas; Greenwood, Alex D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Environmental DNA (eDNA) and invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) are used to survey biodiversity non-invasively to mitigate difficulties in obtaining wildlife samples, particularly in remote areas or for rare species. Recently, ...
    • Probing the genomic limits of de-extinction in the Christmas Island rat 

      Lin, Jianqing; Duchêne, David; Carøe, Christian; Smith, Oliver; Ciucani, Marta Maria; Niemann, Jonas; Richmond, Douglas; Greenwood, Alex D.; MacPhee, Ross; Zhang, Guojie; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Three principal methods are under discussion as possible pathways to “true” de-extinction; i.e., back-breeding, cloning, and genetic engineering.1,2 Of these, while the latter approach is most likely to apply to the largest ...