Environmental DNA | Forensic Ecology

Know what's in the water, from a drop of DNA.

TaxaScreen® qPCR for single species and TaxaReveal™ metabarcoding panels for whole communities. Every result lands in TaxaView™, your complementary biodiversity platform.

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Your biodiversity platform
River Test · Spring survey
8 sites · 302,812 reads

SPECIES

47

SHANNON H′

2.91

SITES

8

Richness by site

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8

Cumulative detections

QPCR DETECTION
63+ TARGET SPECIES
METABARCODING
6 TAXONOMIC GROUPS
METHODS
qPCR · METABARCODE
COVERAGE
UK & IRELAND

How does environmental DNA testing work?

From a water sample to robust detections.

Organisms shed DNA into their environment. We capture it, test it, and tell you exactly which species left it behind with the data to back it up.

  1. 01

    Sample

    You filter water in the field, or use one of our efficient 24-hour passive samplers. The DNA is preserved on the filter, and you send it to us.

  2. 02

    Quality Control

    Robust quality control of your sample and the DNA to ensure defensible testing.

  3. 03

    Detection

    qPCR for single-species detection; metabarcoding for whole communities. Reads are matched against curated reference libraries.

  4. 04

    Report

    A signed PDF for your records and customers, and a living dataset you can interrogate in TaxaView™.

Your biodiversity platform

Your results aren't a PDF. They're a living dataset.

Every sample you send flows straight into TaxaView™ so you can create your own projects over multiple orders.

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Projects
Group samples into projects and revisit sites over seasons.
Both methods
TaxaScreen® qPCR and TaxaReveal™ metabarcoding in one view.
Diversity metrics
Richness, Shannon diversity, site maps and charts, calculated for you.
Compare
Benchmark biodiversity across projects, sites and time.

Live · public detection data (British Isles)

We help you visualise what we detect in your samples.

Every detection we make can be combined with real distribution data with the natives we help protect and the invasives we help track. The public detection records are live and you can choose to include them in your TaxaView™ visualisations.

  • White-clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes
  • Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus
  • Crayfish Plague Aphanomyces astaci
See every species we detect
occurrence density · 3 taxa

Taxa Genomics Environmental and Wildlife DNA Testing

Our testing ranges.

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01 TaxaScreen® qPCR Targeted qPCR tests for single species and small panels. 02 TaxaReveal™ Metabarcoding Community metabarcoding panels for whole taxonomic groups. 03 TaxaID™ Identification Identify a species, or sex a bird, from a submitted specimen — droppings, feathers, tissue or hair — by DNA barcoding and molecular sexing. 04 Sampling kits

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Species we detect.

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African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis Alpine Newt Ichthyosaura alpestris American Bull Frog Lithobates catesbeianus American mink Neogale vison American Red-eared Slider Trachemys scripta elegans Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus Asian Clam Corbicula fluminea Atlantic Herring Clupea harengus Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar Australian tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus Beaver Castor fiber Bloody Red Shrimp Hemimysis anomala African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis Alpine Newt Ichthyosaura alpestris American Bull Frog Lithobates catesbeianus American mink Neogale vison American Red-eared Slider Trachemys scripta elegans Arctic Charr Salvelinus alpinus Asian Clam Corbicula fluminea Atlantic Herring Clupea harengus Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar Australian tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus Beaver Castor fiber Bloody Red Shrimp Hemimysis anomala

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