Genome skimming reveals novel plastid markers for the molecular identification of illegally logged African timber species

• Maurizio Mascarello ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maurizio.mascarello.88@gmail.com

  Affiliations Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0325-2345

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• Mario Amalfi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium, Fédération Wallonie–Bruxelles, Service général de l’Enseignement universitaire et de la Recherche scientifique, Brussels, Belgium

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• Pieter Asselman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycology & Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3491-2174

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• Erik Smets,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Olivier J. Hardy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Hans Beeckman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wood Biology, Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

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• Steven B. Janssens

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium, Department of Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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