South American camelid illegal traffic detection by means of molecular markers

Legal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 289-292

  Di Rocco, F ^a   Posik, D M ^b,c   Ripoli, M V ^b   Diaz S ^b   Mate M L ^a   Giovambattista, G ^b   Vidal Rioja, L ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

^c Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

COXI gene; Cyt b gene; Illegal traffic; MtDNA; South american camelids; Species identification; STR loci

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; DNA DETERMINATION; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FRAUD; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054848279     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Wetton H., Tsang T., Roney C., Spriggs A. An extremely sensitive species-specific ARMS-PCR test for the presence of tiger bone DNA. Forensic Sci Int 2002, 126:137-144.
2. Bellis C., Ashton K., Freney L., Blair B., Griffiths L. A molecular genetic approach for forensic animal species identification. Forensic Sci Int 2003, 134:99-108.
3. Angleby H., Savolainen P. Forensic informativity of domestic dog mtDNA control region sequences. Forensic Sci Int 2005, 154:99-110.
4. Palumbi S.R., Cipriano F. Species identification using genetic tools: the value of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences in whale conservation. J Hered 1998, 89:459-464.
5. Wan Q., Fang S. Application of species-specific polymerase chain reaction in the forensic identification of tiger species. Forensic Sci Int 2003, 131:75-78.
6. Wasser S.K., Clark W.J., Drori O., Kisamo E.S., Mailand C., Mutayoba B., et al. Combating the illegal trade in African elephant ivory with DNA forensics. Conserv Biol 2008, 22:1065-1071.
7. Franklin W. Biology, ecology and relationship to man of the South American camelids. Mammalian biology of South America 1982, vol. 6:457-489. The Pymatuniang Symposia in Ecology, Pittsburgh.
8. Wheeler J.C. On the origin and early development of camelid pastoralism in the Andes. Animals and archaeology, early herders and their Flocks 1984, vol. 3:395-410. BAR International Series 202, Oxford.
9. Vidal-Rioja L., Zambelli A., Semorile L. An assessment of the relationships among species of Camelidae by satellite DNA comparisons. Hereditas 1994, 121:283-290.
10. Stanley H.F., Kadwell M., Wheeler J.C. Molecular evolution of the family Camelidae: a mitochondrial study. Proc R Soc Lond B 1994, 256:1-6.
11. Kadwell M., Fernandez M., Stanley H.F., Wheeler J.C., Rosadio R., Bruford M.W. Genetic analysis reveals the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca. Proc R Soc Lond B 2001, 268:2575-2584.
12. Kocher T.D., Thomas W.K., Meyer A., Edwards S.V., Pääbo S., Villablanca F.X., et al. Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. Proc Natl Acad Sci 1989, 86:6196-6200.
13. Parson W., Pegoraro K., Niederstätter H., Föger M., Steilechner M. Species identification by means of cytochrome b gene. Int J Legal Med 2000, 114:23-28.
14. Bravi C.M., Lirón J.P., Mirol P.M., Ripoli M.V., Peral-García P., Giovambattista G. A simple method for domestic animal identification in Argentina using PCR-RFLP analysis of cytochrome b gene. Leg Med 2004, 6:246-251.
15. Di Rocco F., Parisi G., Zambelli A., Vidal Rioja L. Rapid evolution of cytochrome c oxidase subunit II in camelids (Tylopoda, Camelidae). J Bioenerg Biomembr 2006, 38:293-298.
16. Bustamante A., Maté M.L., Zambelli A., Vidal-Rioja L. Isolation and characterization of 10 polymorphic dinucleotide microsatellite markers for llama and guanaco. Mol Ecol Notes 2003, 3:68-69.
17. Bustamante A. Aislamiento y caracterización genética de marcadores microsatélites hipervariables en poblaciones argentinas de llamas (Lama lama) y guanaco (Lama guanico). PhD Thesis 2005; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
18. Maté M.L., Bustamante A.V., Giovambattista G., De Lamo D., von Thüngen J., Zambelli A., et al. Genetic diversity and differentiation of guanaco populations. Anim Genet 2005, 36:316-321.
19. Thompson J.D., Higgins D.G., Gibson T.J. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 1994, 22:4673-4680.
20. Bandelt H.J., Forster P., Röhl A. Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies. Mol Biol Evol 1999, 16:37-48.
21. Pritchard J.K., Stephens M., Donnelly P. Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data. Genetics 2000, 155:945-959.
22. Bustamante A.V., Maté M.L., Lamas H.E., Giovambattista G., Zambelli A., Vidal-Rioja L. Análisis de diversidad genética en tres poblaciones de llamas (Lama glama) del Noroeste Argentino (NOA). Rev Chil de Hist Nat 2006, 79:175-184.
23. Bruford M.W., Bradley D.G., Luikart G. DNA markers reveal the complexity of livestock domestication. Nat Rev 2003, 4:900-910.
24. Sarno R., David V., Franklin W., O'Brien S., Johnson W.E. Development of microsatellite markers in the guanaco, Lama guanicoe: utility for South American camelids. Mol Ecol 2000, 11:19-22.