Molecular species identification of bushmeat recovered from the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania

• Megan A. Schilling ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Megan A. Schilling, Anna B. Estes, Ernest Eblate, Andimile Martin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0588-8005

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• Anna B. Estes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Megan A. Schilling, Anna B. Estes, Ernest Eblate, Andimile Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Ernest Eblate ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Megan A. Schilling, Anna B. Estes, Ernest Eblate, Andimile Martin

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Andimile Martin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Megan A. Schilling, Anna B. Estes, Ernest Eblate, Andimile Martin

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Dennis Rentsch,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lincoln Park Zoo, Conservation and Science Department, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Robab Katani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Asteria Joseph,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Fatuma Kindoro,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Beatus Lyimo,

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

  Affiliation The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Jessica Radzio-Basu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Isabella M. Cattadori,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Peter J. Hudson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Vivek Kapur,

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

  Affiliations The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Joram J. Buza ,

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

  * E-mail: paul.gwakisa@nm-aist.ac.tz (PSG); joram.buza@nm-aist.ac.tz (JJB)

  Affiliation The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Paul S. Gwakisa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: paul.gwakisa@nm-aist.ac.tz (PSG); joram.buza@nm-aist.ac.tz (JJB)

  Affiliations The School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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