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Individual Identification of Prey in Carnivore Scats.
Molecular ecology resources - 1 Jul 2026
Eriksson Charlotte E, Bianco Marcus, Ruprecht Joel, Clark Darren A, Levi Taal
Abstract excerpt
Noninvasive genetic sampling is widely used in ecology and conservation to identify predators and their diets but recovering individual-level information from consumed prey remains largely unexplored. We evaluated whether individual prey can be reliably genotyped from carnivore scats and assessed limitations associated with degraded and mixed DNA sources. We developed a 31-locus SNP panel optimized for genotyping...
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