Competing interests
‘Teleo’ primers and the use of the amplified fragment for identifying
fish species from environmental samples are patented by the CNRS and the
Université Grenoble Alpes. This patent only restricts commercial
applications and has no implications on the use of this method by
academic researchers. SPYGEN owns a licence for this patent. T.D., P.J
and A.V. are research scientists at a private company specializing in
the use of eDNA for species detection.