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Using eDNA in Quest to Rediscover Zug’s Monitor Lizard: a Top 25 Most Wanted Lost Species

Sometimes extinction isn’t forever, it just takes the right team to discover what others could not. The...

William I. Boarman, Ph.D.

The Biodiversity Group

78%
funded

$10,500
goal

22
days left

Exploiting Trans-Generational Epigenetic Adaptation to Enhance Crop Yield

Via epigenetic "trans-generational" inheritance plants can transmit to offspring responses to stresses such...

1%
funded

$10,000
goal

2
days left

Using eDNA to unveil the anchialine ecosystem

Welcome to the coolest ecosystem you've never heard of - the anchialine ecosystem! Anchialine habitats are...

Justin Chase Havird

The University of Texas at Austin

91%
funded

$2,689
goal

9
days left

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National Science Foundation

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