Improving cost-efficiency of faecal genotyping: New tools for elephant species

Stéphanie Bourgeois; Jenny Kaden; Helen Senn; Nils Bunnefeld; Kathryn J. Jeffery; Etienne F. Akomo-Okoue; Rob Ogden; Ross McEwing

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210811

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Improving cost-efficiency of faecal genotyping: New tools for elephant species

Stéphanie Bourgeois ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: stephbourgeois_@hotmail.com

Affiliations Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon, WildGenes Laboratory, The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1218-8912

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Jenny Kaden,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WildGenes Laboratory, The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Helen Senn,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WildGenes Laboratory, The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Nils Bunnefeld,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
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Kathryn J. Jeffery,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux, Libreville, Gabon, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom, Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon
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Etienne F. Akomo-Okoue,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Écologie Tropicale, Libreville, Gabon
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Rob Ogden,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Ross McEwing

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

Affiliation TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Improving cost-efficiency of faecal genotyping: New tools for elephant species

Stéphanie Bourgeois,
Jenny Kaden,
Helen Senn,
Nils Bunnefeld,
Kathryn J. Jeffery,
Etienne F. Akomo-Okoue,
Rob Ogden,
Ross McEwing

Published: January 30, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210811

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