Giant panda scent-marking strategies in the wild: role of season, sex and marking surface

Extraction, PCR amplification, and seque

Extraction, PCR amplification, and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA from scent mark and feces in the giant panda

✍ Bo Ding; Ya-ping Zhang; Oliver A. Ryder 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 58 KB 👁 1 views

To expand the feasibility of applying simple, efficient, non-invasive DNA preparation methods using samples that can be obtained from giant pandas living in the wild, we investigated the use of scent markings and fecal samples. Giant panda-specific oligonucleotide primers were used to amplify a port