Method for investigating diversity of organisms living in environment

Abstract

To simply and efficiently collect an organism-derived nucleic acid and investigate the diversity of organisms in the environment.SOLUTION: This method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment comprises: collecting an organism-derived nucleic acid from an object moving in the environment, which is an animate or inanimate object moving in the environment; and subjecting the collected organism-derived nucleic acid to an analysis on the type and abundance of an organism from which the organism-derived nucleic acid is derived.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Claims

1. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment, comprising: Recovering biological nucleic acids from living or non-living objects moving through the environment; The collected nucleic acid is analyzed for the type and abundance of the organism from which the nucleic acid is derived. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

2. 2. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to claim 1, comprising: The environmental mobile object is a mobile organism, As the nucleic acid derived from the organism, nucleic acid attached to the mobile organism or nucleic acid taken into the body of the mobile organism is collected. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

3. 2. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to claim 1, comprising: The mobile organism is a fish or a bird. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

4. 4. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to claim 3, comprising: the migratory organism is a fish; As the biological nucleic acid, nucleic acid attached to the body surface of the fish is collected. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

5. 2. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to claim 1, comprising: The environmental mobile object is a mobile inanimate object, Extracting nucleic acids from the mobile non-living object to recover the nucleic acids derived from the object. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

6. 2. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to claim 1, comprising: The mobile non-living matter is either waste from living organisms, detached matter from living organisms, or precipitation. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

7. A method for investigating the diversity of organisms living in an environment according to any one of claims 1 to 6, comprising: In a specific environment to be investigated, the operation of recovering the biological nucleic acid from the object moving within the environment and performing the analysis is repeated to monitor the organisms living in the specific environment. Methods for investigating the diversity of organisms living in the environment.

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