Fecal DNA Analysis for Identifying Species and Sex of Sympatric Carnivores: A Noninvasive Method for Conservation on the Tsushima Islands, Japan

Kurose, Naoko; Masuda, Ryuichi; Tatara, Masaya

doi:10.1093/jhered/esi124

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Fecal DNA Analysis for Identifying Species and Sex of Sympatric Carnivores: A Noninvasive Method for Conservation on the Tsushima Islands, Japan

Published in Journal of Heredity • Nov 1, 2005

Authors:

Naoko Kurose

Ryuichi Masuda

Masaya Tatara

Abstract

Fecal analysis is a useful tool for the investigation of food habits and species identity in mammals. However, it is generally difficult to identify the species based on the morphological features and contents of feces deposited by mammals of similar body size. Therefore we developed noninvasive DNA...

Subject

Carnivore

Biology

Sympatric speciation

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