Avoiding common numts to provide reliable species identification for tiger parts
Tigers are killed to supply a demand for many wildlife products despite a ban on commercial international trade. As populations decrease, products from substitute species (i.e. lions and leopards) have been fraudulently sold as tiger. DNA forensic techniques are needed to definitively identify tiger...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-07-01
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Series: | Forensic Science International: Reports |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266591072030116X |