{"id":1975,"date":"2014-06-14T18:16:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T23:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:28:04","slug":"dna-barcoding-could-help-catch-invasive-snakeheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/dna-barcoding-could-help-catch-invasive-snakeheads\/","title":{"rendered":"DNA barcoding could help catch invasive snakeheads<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1962\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3783146460_8369ed643b_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1962\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3783146460_8369ed643b_b.jpg\" alt=\"The northern snakehead (Channa argus) is native to Russia, China and the Koreas, and is invasive in North America. A new DNA barcoding library could help conservationists track and catch this and other snakehead species. (Photo credit: Brian Gatwicke, via flickr)\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3783146460_8369ed643b_b.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3783146460_8369ed643b_b-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The northern snakehead (Channa argus) is native to Russia, China and the Koreas, and is invasive in North America. A new DNA barcoding library could help conservationists track and catch this and other snakehead species. (Photo credit: Brian Gatwicke, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/briangratwicke\/3783146460\">flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new set of DNA barcodes could help combat the notoriously invasive fish known as snakeheads. Snakeheads are native to Asia and are believed to have been introduced to North American rivers by private collectors dumping their unwanted pets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Identification is difficult because the juveniles and adults can look very different, while fish from different snakehead species can look very similar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creating a library of barcodes from expert-identified specimens, the authors of a new study hope to provide a way to quickly identify snakeheads caught in the wild, helping conservationists track their spread and work toward their elimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0099546\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 10, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Natasha Serrano, University of Guelph,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dirk Steinke, University of Guelph, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Hanner, University of Guelph,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new set of DNA barcodes could help combat the notoriously invasive fish known as snakeheads. Snakeheads are native to Asia and are believed to have been introduced to North American rivers by private collectors dumping their unwanted pets. Identification is difficult because the juveniles and adults can look very different, while fish from different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,113,1445,1274,171,215,917,909],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-conservation","tag-dna","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3783146460_8369ed643b_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}