Carnivore diet analysis based on next-generation sequencing: Application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in Pakistan

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1951-1965

  Shehzad, Wasim ^a   Riaz, Tiayyba ^a   Nawaz, Muhammad A ^a,b   Miquel, Christian ^a   Poillot, Carole ^a   Shah, Safdar A ^c   Pompanon, François ^a   Coissac, Eric ^a   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b Snow Leopard Trust (Pakistan Program)   (Pakistan)

^c Wildlife Department   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

blocking oligonucleotide; DNA metabarcoding; mitochondrial DNA; ribosomal DNA; species identification

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; FECES; FELIDAE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIET; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FECES; FELIDAE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PRIONAILURUS BENGALENSIS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859617279     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05424.x     Document Type: Article

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