Development and validation of an environmental DNA assay to detect federally threatened groundwater salamanders in central Texas

• Zachary C. Adcock ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adcock.zach@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America, Cambrian Environmental, Austin, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0051-2404

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• Michelle E. Adcock,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America

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• Michael R. J. Forstner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, United States of America

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