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Wild chimpanzee infant urine and saliva sampled noninvasively usable for DNA analyses.
Primates; journal of primatology - 1 Apr 2007
Inoue Eiji, Inoue-Murayama Miho, Takenaka Osamu, Nishida Toshisada
Abstract excerpt
In many genetic studies on the great apes, fecal or hair samples have been used as sources of DNA. However, feces and hairs are difficult to collect from chimpanzee infants under 3 years of age. As alternative DNA sources, we investigated the efficiency of collecting urine samples from infants compared with fecal samples, as well as the validity of the DNA extracted from urine and saliva samples of...
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