About the Authors
- Shu-Jin Luo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Jin Luo, Jae-Heup Kim, Stephen J O'Brien
Affiliations Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Jae-Heup Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Jin Luo, Jae-Heup Kim, Stephen J O'Brien
Current address: Biochip Project Team, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Korea
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Warren E Johnson
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Joelle van der Walt
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Current address: Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Janice Martenson
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Naoya Yuhki
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Dale G Miquelle
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Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Russian Far East Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Olga Uphyrkina
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Current address: Evolutionary Zoology and Genetics Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- John M Goodrich
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Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Hornocker Wildlife Institute, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Howard B Quigley
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Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Society, Russian Far East Program, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Wildlife Conservation Society, Hornocker Wildlife Institute, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
- Ronald Tilson
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Affiliation Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, Minnesota, United States of America
- Gerald Brady
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Affiliation Potter Park Zoo, Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
- Paolo Martelli
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Affiliation Singapore Zoological Gardens, Singapore
- Vellayan Subramaniam
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Affiliation Zoo Negara, Hulu Kelang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Charles McDougal
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Affiliation Tiger Tops, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Sun Hean
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Affiliation International Cooperation Office, Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Shi-Qiang Huang
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Affiliation Beijing Zoo, Beijing, China
- Wenshi Pan
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Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Ullas K Karanth
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Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society—India Program, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Melvin Sunquist
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Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- James L. D Smith
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Affiliation Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
- Stephen J O'Brien
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shu-Jin Luo, Jae-Heup Kim, Stephen J O'Brien
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: obrien@ncifcrf.gov
Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no conflicts of interests exist.
Author Contributions
SJL, JHK, WEJ, JV, NY, and SJOB conceived and designed the experiments. SJL, JHK, JV, JM, and OU performed the experiments. SJL, JHK, and WEJ analyzed the data. SJL, WEJ, JM, NY, DM, OU, JMG, HBQ, RT, GB, PM, VS, CM, SH, SQH, WP, UKK, MS, JLDS, and SJOB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SJL, JHK, WEJ, and SJOB wrote the paper.