Unveiling the Diet of Elusive Rainforest Herbivores in Next Generation Sequencing Era? The Tapir as a Case Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hibert, Fabrice ^a   Taberlet, Pierre ^b   Chave, Jérôme ^c   Scotti Saintagne, Caroline ^d   Sabatier, Daniel ^e   Richard Hansen, Cécile ^a  

^a Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage   (French Guiana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^d Campus Agronomique   (France)

^e UMR AMAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; PLANT DNA;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METABARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENUS; HERBIVORE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT TAXONOMY; PLASTID; RAIN FOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAPIR; TAXON;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DIET; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FRENCH GUIANA; HERBIVORY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; RIBOSOMES;

TAPIRIDAE; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 84875797249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060799     Document Type: Article

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