A reliable method for individual identification and gender determination of wild leopards (Panthera pardus fusca) using non-invasive samples

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 665-667

  Dutta, Trishna ^a,b   Sharma, Sandeep ^a,b   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a,b   Wood, Thomas C ^b   Seidensticker, John ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual identification; Microsatellite; Noninvasive DNA sampling; Panthera pardus fusca; Sex assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878358637     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-012-9618-5     Document Type: Article

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