Survey of vulnerable Amazonian manatees using environmental DNA (eDNA): A method for survey in remote field settings

• Kaitlyn Romoser ,

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

  * E-mail: kaitlynrromoser@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3325-4220

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• Shizuka Hashimoto,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Nasrah M. C. Hamdan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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• Leonardo Sena,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Advacnced Biodiversity Studies (CEABIO), Biological Sciences Institute, Federal University of Pará, Guamá, Belém, Pennsylvania, Brazil

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• Miriam Marmontel,

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

  Affiliation Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé AM, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-9548

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• Tomas Hrbek,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Department of Biology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-7068

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• Izeni P. Farias,

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

  Affiliation Laboratório de Evolução e Genética Animal, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1416-4351

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• Kirk O. Winemiller

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

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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