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DNA tools to curb the illegal pet trade
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-dna-tools-to-curb-the-illegal-pet-trade/Our ability to detect the illegal trade in a threatened Australian snake species has just increased.
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Finding needles in a haystack
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-finding-needles-in-a-haystack/Detecting tiny exotic flies just got easier thanks to DNA barcoding, and now we also know where they came from.
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Feathers of the Gods: Is it a Bird?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/feathers-gods-bird/Is it a bat? Is it a plane? If you are an air traveller, you probably have more to do with museums, especially ours, than you think!
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Aviation airstrike
https://australian.museum/get-involved/amri/acwg/birdstrike/Our Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics provides DNA identification services for wildlife strikes.
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Science Education DNA Project at Australian Museum leads to ‘fishy’ results
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/science-education-dna-project-at-australian-museum-leads-to-fishy-results/The Australian Museum’s DNA scientists teamed up with Year 10 and 11 students from Sydney Grammar School in 2016/17 to investigate the accuracy of fish labelling in Sydney which has led to some interesting and ‘fishy’ results.
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DNA barcoding
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/dna-barcoding/Students will investigate how genetic technologies are used to extract, visualise, and sequence DNA, enabling genetic analysis and species identification.
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How sheep poo can help defend threatened native plants
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-sheep-poo-can-help-defend-threatened-native-plants/Are Australia's sheep eating threatened plants? Turns out they've been "dropping" hints...
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DNA Evidence Combats Trafficking
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/dna-evidence-combats-trafficking/Forensic scientists at the Australian Museum use our DNA library to help authorities crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade globally.
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Collecting in collections
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-collecting-in-collections/A new technique developed at the Australian Museum allows us to make better use of historical insect collections for DNA barcoding.
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Koala genes decoded!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-koala-genes-decoded/For the first time the genetic instruction manual, or blue-print, for this iconic Australian marsupial has been revealed.
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