We sat on a bench near a broken drinking water fountain. Somebody had driven a peg in its spout, thus solving a plumbing issue. People say that birds don't sing in former battle fields because so many deaths had occurred there. I can make a personal contribution to the topic. Birds ...
For both types of PCR, a negative control (nuclease-free water) and a positive control (extracted DNA from bird blood, infected with Plasmodium (in the investigation of haemosporidian parasites) or Trypanosoma (in the search for tripanodomatids) parasites confirmed both by PCR and microscopy)...