Assessment of genotyping accuracy in a non-invasive DNA-based population survey of Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus): Lessons from a large-scale pilot study in Iwate prefecture, northern Japan

Population Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-519

  Uno, Reina ^a   Kondo, Mami ^b   Yuasa, Takashi ^c   Yamauchi, Kiyoshi ^d   Tsuruga, Hihumi ^b   Tamate, Hidetoshi B ^e   Yoneda, Masaaki ^f  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO RESEARCH ORGANIZATION   (Japan)

^c Wildlife Management Office Inc   (Japan)

^d Research Institute for Environmental Sciences and Public Health of Iwate Prefecture   (Japan)

^e YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic dropout; Error rate; False alleles; Hair trap; Microsatellite

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLELE; BEAR; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HAIR; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; TRAPPING;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS THIBETANUS;

EID: 84866742505     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-012-0328-3     Document Type: Article

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