Wildlife forensic DNA and lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris) poaching

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 189-193

  Sanches, A ^a   Perez, W A M ^b   Figueiredo, M G ^c   Rossini, B C ^c   Cervini, M ^c   Galetti, P M ^c   Galetti, M ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b IBAMA Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytochrome b; Forensic genetics; Hunting; Microsatellite; Species identification

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 84857627788     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-010-9318-y     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Araújo RM, Souza MB, Ruiz-Miranda CR (2008) Densidade e tamanho populacional de mamíferos cinegéticos em duas Unidades de Conservação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Iheríngia Ser Zool 98: 391-396.
2. Bodmer RE (1990) Fruit patch size and frugivory in the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris). J Zool 222: 121-128.
3. Bodmer RE (1995) Managing Amazonian wildlife: biological correlates of game choice by detribalized hunters. Ecol Appl 5: 872-877.
4. Cullen L., Bodmer RE, Pádua CV (2000) Effects of hunting in habitat fragments of the Atlantic forests, Brazil. Biol Conserv 95: 49-56.
5. Fa JE, Peres CA (2001) Game vertebrate extraction in African and Neotropical forests: an intercontinental comparison. In: Reynolds JD, Mace GM, Redford KH, Robinson JG (eds) Conservation of exploited species. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 203-240.
6. Flesher K (2005) Tapir extinction in the Atlantic Forests between the Rio das Contas and the Rio Paraguaçu. Tapir Conserv 14: 13-15.
7. Fragoso JMV (1997) Tapir-generated seed shadows: scale-dependent patchiness in the Amazon rain Forest. J Ecol 85: 519-529.
8. Galetti M, Keuroghlian A, Hanada L, Morato MI (2001) Frugivory and seed dispersal by the Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in Southeast Brazil. Biotropica 33: 723-726.
9. Galetti M, Giacomini H, Bueno R, Marques RM, Bernardo CSS, Bovendorp R, Gobbo S, Donatti C, Steffler CE, Meirelles F, Anzolin RB, Nobre R, Chiarello A, Peres CA (2009) Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals. Biol Conserv 142: 1229-1241.
10. Gravena W, Hrbek T, Silva VMF, Farias IP (2008) Amazon River dolphin love fetishes: from folklore to molecular forensics. Mar Mamm Sci 24: 969-978.
11. Hall TA (1999) BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucl Acids Symp Ser 41: 95-98.
12. Hansen DM, Galetti M (2009) The forgotten megafauna. Science 324: 42-43.
13. Irwin DM, Kocher TD, Wilson AC (1991) Evolution of the cytochrome b gene of mammals. J Mol Evol 32: 128-144.
14. Kimura M (1980) A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitution through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. J Mol Evol 16: 111-120.
15. Kocher TD, Thomas WK, Meyer A, Edwards SV, Paabo S, Villablanca FX, Wilson A (1989) Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. Proc Natl Acad Sci 86: 6196-6200.
16. Kumar S, Tamura KM, Nei M (2004) MEGA3: integrated software for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis and sequence alignment. Brief Bioinform 5: 150-163.
17. Linacre A (2009) Forensic science in Wildlife investigations. Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press, Florida.
18. Medici EP, Foerster C (2002) The influence of large herbivores on Neotropical Forests. Tapir Conserv 11: 9-10.
19. Ogden R, Dawnay N, McEwing R (2009) Wildlife DNA forensics-bridging the gap between conservation genetics and law enforcement. Endang Species Res 2: 1-17.
20. Peres C (2000) Effects of subsistence hunting on vertebrate community structure in Amazon forests. Consev Biol 14: 240-253.
21. Redford K (1992) The empty forest. Bioscience 42: 412-422.
22. Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4: 406-425.
23. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T (1989) Molecular cloning. A laboratory manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
24. Sanches A, Figueiredo MG, Hatanaka T, Paula FFP, Silveira L, Jácomo A, Galetti PM (2009) Microsatellite loci isolated from the lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris), one of the largest Neotropical mammal. Conserv Genet Resour 1: 115-117.
25. Schuelke M (2000) An economic method for the fluorescent labeling of PCR fragments. Nat Biotechnol 18: 233-234.