Tracing the geographic origin of traded leopard body parts in the indian subcontinent with DNA-based assignment tests

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 556-564

  Mondol, Samrat ^a,b,c,f   Sridhar, Vanjulavalli ^b,c   Yadav, Prasanjeet ^b   Gubbi, Sanjay ^d,e   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^b  

^a Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^e PANTHERA   (United States)

^f WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Genetic assignment; Illegal wildlife trade; Panthera pardus fusca; Poaching; Wildlife forensics

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FELID; FORENSIC SCIENCE; POACHING; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; TRADE-OFF; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

INDIA;

PANTHERA PARDUS;

DNA;

ANIMAL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MALE; PANTHERA; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRIME; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MALE; PANTHERA;

EID: 84924742886     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12393     Document Type: Article

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