{"id":4465,"date":"2025-08-07T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:58:55","slug":"quando-il-dna-racconta-la-storia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/quando-il-dna-racconta-la-storia\/","title":{"rendered":"When DNA tells the tale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-text stk-block-text stk-block stk-125094e\" data-block-id=\"125094e\"><p class=\"stk-block-text__text\">In our latest study, just published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, we developed a fast and reliable method to identify four Mediterranean cetacean species \ud83d\udc33\ud83d\udc2c\ud83d\udc0b \u2026 using not only tissue samples, but also their feces! \ud83d\udc2c\ud83d\udca9\ud83d\udd2c<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\uddec Thanks to High-Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis, we can accurately identify striped dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, sperm whales, and fin whales\u2014even from degraded samples like feces or stranded tissue.\nThe protocol we developed distinguishes species-specific DNA by analyzing the melting temperature of the PCR product: each species has a unique DNA sequence, and thus a unique melting temperature \ud83d\udcca.<br>This represents a breakthrough not only for marine biodiversity monitoring, but also for conservation efforts \ud83c\udf0d and the fight against illegal trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 This work was made possible thanks to a strong collaboration among the University of Naples Federico II, the Oceanomare Delphis APS association, and the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Mezzogiorno, all committed to protecting marine life in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf0a Special thanks to the crew of the sailing vessel Jean Gab \u26f5, who collected samples at sea with full respect for the animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udccc For those who love the sea, science, and protecting biodiversity\u2014this is just the beginning! \ud83d\udca1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nel nostro ultimo studio, appena pubblicato su International Journal of Molecular Sciences, abbiamo sviluppato un metodo rapido per identificare quattro specie di cetacei del Mediterraneo\u2026 partendo non solo dai tessuti, ma anche dai loro escrementi! \ud83d\udc2c\ud83d\udca9\ud83d\udd2c \ud83e\uddec Grazie all\u2019analisi High-Resolution Melting (HRM), possiamo riconoscere stenelle, tursiopi, capodogli e balenottere comuni con un protocollo veloce e [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,9,70,63,69,71,75,64,74,76,78,73,67,77,68,66,72],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biodiversitamarina","tag-cetaceans","tag-cetaceanscience","tag-cetacei","tag-conservazionemarina","tag-dna","tag-federicoiiuniversity","tag-hrm","tag-marinebiodiversity","tag-marineconservation","tag-mediterraneanse","tag-mediterraneo","tag-oceanomaredelphis","tag-research","tag-ricerca","tag-universitafedericoii","tag-wildlifeforensics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanomaredelphis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}