| from the worm in a bottle of mezcal: idna confirmation of a leech parasitizing the antillean manatee. | invertebrate-derived ingested dna (idna) is quickly proving to be a valuable, non-invasive tool for monitoring vertebrate species of conservation concern. using the dna barcoding locus, we successfully identified both the blood-feeding leech haementeria acuecueyetzin and its blood meal-the latter is shown to be derived from the caribbean manatee, trichechus manatus . dna amplification was successful despite the fact that the specimen was fixed in mezcal (a beverage distilled from agave). we repo ... | 2016 | 27391275 |