High genetic diversity and distinct ancient lineage of Asiatic black bears revealed by non-invasive surveys in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

• Rabin Kadariya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabin Kadariya, Michito Shimozuru

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wildlife Biology and Medicine, Department of Environmental Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0490-6892

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• Michito Shimozuru ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rabin Kadariya, Michito Shimozuru

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Biology and Medicine, Department of Environmental Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3281-8208

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• Jesús E. Maldonado,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wildlife Biology and Medicine, Department of Environmental Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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• Mariko Sashika,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Biology and Medicine, Department of Environmental Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Toshio Tsubota

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tsubota@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Wildlife Biology and Medicine, Department of Environmental Veterinary Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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