#airsampling
You can't just pull data out of thin air. Or can you...?
That's exactly what Craine et al. did in Panama, through air sampling and airDNA metabarcoding, detecting ~1800 arthropod and vertebrate OTUs.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#nanopore #airsampling #metabarcoding #biodiversity
Surveying Tropical Faunal Diversity via Airborne DNA Analyses
Here, we assess the potential of airborne eDNA (airDNA) metabarcoding to characterize arthropod and vertebrate assemblages in a tropical forest. We deployed 28 high-flow air samplers across a 1.5 km2…
www.biorxiv.org
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Airsampling to Detect SARS-Cov-2 Virus Levels
Study highlights that air sampling detected SARS-CoV-2 in schools, validating airborne transmission as a route of COVID-19 spread in indoor congregate settings. This has implications for public health measures and ongoing surveillance.

JAMA - JAN '24
February 1, 2024 at 3:00 AM