Aquatic eDNA Kit

Detect aquatic and semi-aquatic biodiversity from a water sample.

Water carries DNA shed by the animals living in and around it. Our aquatic kits enable you to capture that DNA from rivers, ponds, lakes and other water bodies, including marine environments. Just a few liters of water can uncover the vertebrate and invertebrate biodiversity of an area, without the need for nets, kick samples or electrofishing.

What's in the kit:

  • High capacity dual filter enabling 2-3 liters of water to be filtered per sample, with luer lock caps

  • Nitrile gloves

  • Sample collection bag

  • 50 ml filtration syringe

  • 5 mL syringe with 3.5 mL of DNA preservation buffer (sealed with reusable Luer Lock cap)

  • Instructions


What you'll need:

  • Water sampling pole (available for hire or we can advise you on purchase)

  • Electric field pump (available for hire or we can advise you on purchase)

Optional extras:

  • Smartphone or GPS to capture site location coordinates (lat/long), or What3Words

  • Pencil

  • Permanent marker

  • 1 liter of tap water per field control

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Species we regularly monitor with our aquatic eDNA kits:
Single-species qPCR
£140 +VAT
Sterile aquatic sample kit

Our single use sampling kits are designed to increase water filtration and are capable of filtering >3 L per sample, maximising detection success.

Each additional species

Up to three species per sample.

Multi-species metabarcoding
£22.50 +VAT
£35 +VAT

Our pricing follows a tiered model. As project size increases, the cost per sample decreases. Tiered pricing begins at 50 or more samples and reduces again for projects over 200 samples.

Projects with < 50 samples:

Electric pump hire
£100 +VAT /survey
£260 +VAT
Pricing
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Robust eDNA surveys rely on being able to avoid and monitor any potential cross contamination between sites and samples.

  1. Aquatic eDNA sample kits are sealed and sterile until opened. Only open one kit at a time. When you have finished collecting the sample, put all kit contents back into the kit bag. This prevents transport of eDNA between sites.

  2. Put on your gloves before unsealing the filter. Whilst you have your gloves on avoid touching anything unnecessary. Change gloves between kits, even if sampling the same site with multiple kits.

  3. Any reusable equipment such as sampling poles should be wiped down with a cloth soaked in 10% bleach between samples. Water collection bottles should be fully submerged in a bleach solution for 20 minutes. The bottles should be rinsed with tap water or water from the sample site before use.

  4. Surveys over five samples have field controls included for free, you will need to bring along 1 L of tap water for each field control. Collecting field controls ensures robust results.

Sampling Tips

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Survey design

eDNA behaves very differently in lentic, lotic environments, as well as in marine environments.

Sample replication, spacing and survey periods vary based on these environmental factors, as well as species ecology.

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