Investigating the distribution of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River using environmental DNA

Yongkai Tang; Yunsheng Wu; Kai Liu; Jianlin Li; Hongxia Li; Qin Wang; Juhua Yu; Pao Xu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221120

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Investigating the distribution of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River using environmental DNA

Yongkai Tang,

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China, Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5643-2844

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Yunsheng Wu,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China
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Kai Liu,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China, Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China
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Jianlin Li,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China
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Hongxia Li,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China
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Qin Wang,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China
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Juhua Yu ,

Roles Supervision

* E-mail: yujh@ffrc.cn (JY); xup@ffrc.cn (PX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China, Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China
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Pao Xu

Roles Project administration

* E-mail: yujh@ffrc.cn (JY); xup@ffrc.cn (PX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fisheries and Germplasm Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China, Wuxi Fisheries College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Wuxi, China
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Investigating the distribution of the Yangtze finless porpoise in the Yangtze River using environmental DNA

Yongkai Tang,
Yunsheng Wu,
Kai Liu,
Jianlin Li,
Hongxia Li,
Qin Wang,
Juhua Yu,
Pao Xu

Published: August 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221120

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