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You sure you would be able to do species ID? Pretty unlikely to bring up anything with species level specificity

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2021-05-27 13:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

Well, fuck me - so obvious and honestly I had not thought about it. Yes, they should and yes that should be totallydoable.
2021-05-27 13:39 Andrew Rambaut open

Could do a COI amplification - i.e., species barcoding?
2021-05-27 13:47 Edward C. Holmes open

I'll see if I can get George and Weifeng to do it
2021-05-27 13:50 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, they should really get on it - metagenomic sequencing should be sufficient. It'll be messy, but not a lot of data needed to do meaningful IDs
2021-05-27 13:52 Andrew Rambaut

You sure you would be able to do species ID? Pretty unlikely to bring up anything with species level specificity
2021-05-27 13:52 Andrew Rambaut open

COI would be much more sensitive and there is the BOLD database
2021-05-27 13:54 Edward C. Holmes open

It will be messy, but there should be enough to identify the dominant host and at least to exclude humans
2021-05-27 13:58 Robert F. Garry open

You're the man @Eddie Holmes
2021-05-27 13:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

(we should add this suggestion to the letter)