Food from faeces: Evaluating the efficacy of scat DNA metabarcoding in dietary analyses

• David Thuo ,

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

  * E-mail: david.thuo@canberra.edu.au

  Affiliations Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Kenya Wildlife Trust, Nairobi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0067-6580

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• Elise Furlan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Femke Broekhuis,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kenya Wildlife Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4216-8819

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• Joseph Kamau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Laboratory, Institute of Primate Research, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Kyle Macdonald,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Zoo and Aquarium, Canberra, Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Dianne M. Gleeson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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