Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19890738›Full record

ArticleForensic science, medicine, and pathology2010

Identification of historical specimens and wildlife seizures originating from highly degraded sources of kangaroos and other macropods.

P B S Spencer, D Schmidt, S Hummel

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Article in Forensic science, medicine, and pathology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Combating wildlife crime.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2010
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

P B S SpencerSchool of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Wildlife Forensic Laboratory, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. P.Spencer@murdoch.edu.au
D Schmidt
S Hummel
University of Göttingen · DEMurdoch University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Forensic investigations are an important area in the regulation of food mis-description, wildlife seizures and the international trade in wildlife and its products. An early, but important stage in dealing with many biological materials that are submitted for forensic scrutiny is species identification. We describe a method and new primers to amplify three small DNA fragments of the cytochrome b region of the mitochondrial DNA that are suitable for marsupial species identification from degraded sources, such as wildlife seizures. They were designed as consensus sequences from a comparison of 21 marsupial species. The primers also contained sequences intended specifically not to amplify human DNA, thereby reducing the likelihood of amplifying contaminants. Examples of the utility of these primers are given using a range of conditions that may be applied using such an approach, including (1) field-collected sub-fossil bones, (2) an example of museum mis-identification from a specimen collected in 1930 and (3) a skull collected from Bernier Island, in the harsh mid-west of Western Australia.

Indexed as

DNA Degradation, NecroticAnimalsBone and BonesCommerceConservation of Natural ResourcesCrimeCytochromes bDNA FingerprintingDNA, MitochondrialDNA PrimersMacropodidaePolymerase Chain ReactionSequence Analysis, DNAToothCytochromes bDNA, MitochondrialDNA Primers

Identifiers

PMID19890738
PMCPMC3128748
OpenAlexW2117201411

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