A panel of microsatellites to individually identify leopards and its application to leopard monitoring in human dominated landscapes

BMC Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mondol, Samrat ^a   R, Navya ^a   Athreya, Vidya ^b   Sunagar, Kartik ^a   Selvaraj, Velu M ^a   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Kaati Trust   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FELIDAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INDIA; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FECES; GENETICS; PANTHERA; POPULATION GENETICS;

PANTHERA PARDUS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; INDIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PANTHERA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 73449115667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-10-79     Document Type: Article

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