A fecal sequel: Testing the limits of a genetic assay for bat species identification

• Faith M. Walker ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Faith.Walker@nau.edu

  Affiliations Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-4452

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• Abby Tobin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Nancy B. Simmons,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Colin J. Sobek,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Daniel E. Sanchez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Carol L. Chambers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bat Ecology & Genetics Lab, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Viacheslav Y. Fofanov

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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