Is shed hair the most effective non-invasive resource for estimating wild pedigrees?
Anubhab Khan, Kaushal Patel, Subhadeep Bhattacharjee, Sudarshan Kumar Sharma, Anup N. Chugani, Karthikeyan Sivaraman, Vinayak Hosawad, Yogesh Sahu, Goddilla Viswanatha Reddy, Uma Ramakrishnan
The paper shows that shed hair samples provide sufficient DNA quality and quantity for genome-wide SNP analysis and reliable pedigree reconstruction in wild tigers.
bioRxiv · Jul 28, 2019 · PreprintGenomics