Ryan Sirota Experiment 5 epiphyte DNA extraction
Testing the impacts of seawater reverse osmosis brine effluent and its chemical additives (antiscalants: polymer- and polyphosphonate-based) on bacterial epiphytic DNA from the tropical seagrass Halophila stipulacea leaves and roots, as well as from sediment within the seagrass bed at 0-4cm and 4-8cm depths within the Gulf of Aqaba. DNA extracted using PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit (Mo Bio, Carlsbad, CA, USA)