Degradation experiment
DNA (0.08 ± 55.30 ng of eDNA/μL) was detected in buckets from Day 0 of removal of jellyfish and observed to rapidly decay by Day 3 to about 12 % of initial levels (48.2 ± 13.9 ng/uL) where they plateaued (Figure 1). By Day 9, eDNA levels were <1% of initial concentrations and in some buckets undetectable. A nested ANOVA indicated significant difference among days. There were significant differences between containers (replicates) within days and this explained 65.7% of the variation. Variation at the subsampling level of each replicate bucket was small (<1%).