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New paper on picocyanobacteria

Picocyanobacteria are among the smallest light-harvesting (photosynthetic) organisms found in lakes where they provide energy to larger organisms. As part of the Lakes380 project, University of Otago PhD student Lena Schallenberg (now graduated) studied their distribution in lakes across Aotearoa and established a culture collection of 25 isolates

Her recently published manuscript Isolation and characterisation of monoclonal picocyanobacterial strains from contrasting New Zealand lakes describes the collection. This diverse group of freshwater picocyanobacterial cultures will provide a valuable new resource to study how these critically important microbes function and respond to changing environmental stressors.

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New manuscript on Rototoa (Auckland)

eDNA explorers - discovering life in the lakes of eDNA explorers - discovering life in the lakes of Aotearoa - a new animated video!!

We hope you enjoy our new video explaining eDNA. and how it can be used to detect species in lakes!

The video was written, produced and animated by science communications student Iona Rachilde while undertaking a summer internship at Cawthron funded by Te Pūnaha Matatini. Iona was supervised by Lakes380 team member Mckayla Holloway.

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