ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
A Review of Non-Invasive Sampling in Wildlife Disease and Health Research: What's New?
Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evidence of Physiological Comodulation During Human-Animal Interaction: A Systematic Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Body surface temperatures as biomarkers of physiological environmental adaptation in wild birds and mammals.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Pooled it
- Zoonotic pathogens in wild Asian primates: a systematic review highlighting research gaps.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Pooled it
- Wild boar as a sentinel species for ecosystem health surveillance: A review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Fecal Evidence of Metal and Metalloid Exposure in a Free-Ranging Juvenile Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) From the Brazilian Coast.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
- Non-Invasive Salivary Reproductive Endocrine Profiles in Gentoo Penguins.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Stress in Free-Roaming and Shelter-Housed Dogs: A Review of Neurobiological, Physiological and Behavioral Mechanisms Relevant to Welfare Assessment.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Tissue-Specific Trace Element Distribution in Wild Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) from Dovrefjell, Norway.Biological trace element research · 2026Article
- Non-Invasive Sampling Reveals Genetic Differentiation and Lineage Structure in the Rare ButterflyEcology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Hybrid Horizons: Screening Hybridisation Through Nuclear Environmental DNA.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Tracking pathogen-related markers with eDNA in natural areas: how environmental factors shape surveillance strategies.Veterinary research · 2026Article
- A Method for Preparing Morphologically Preserved Wildlife Fecal Specimens for Long-Term Ecological Studies.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Faecal immunoglobulin A as a non-invasive biomarker of mucosal immunity and health in zoo and wild mammals.Conservation physiology · 2026Review
- Epidemiological Dynamics of a Visually Apparent Disease: Camera Trapping and Machine-Learning Applied to Rumpwear in the Common Brushtail Possum.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Heavy metal exposure and ecological risk assessment in the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Two novel species-specific mitochondrial markers for non-invasive identification of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
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- Host Phylogeny Shapes Gut Microbiota and Predicted Functions in Captive Artiodactyls.Microorganisms · 2025Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
In the last decades, wildlife diseases and the health status of animal populations have gained increasing attention from the scientific community as part of a One Health framework. Furthermore, the need for non-invasive sampling methods with a minimal impact on wildlife has become paramount in complying with modern ethical standards and regulations, and to collect high-quality and unbiased data. We analysed the publication trends on non-invasive sampling in wildlife health and disease research and offer a comprehensive review on the different samples that can be collected non-invasively. We retrieved 272 articles spanning from 1998 to 2021, with a rapid increase in number from 2010. Thirty-nine percent of the papers were focussed on diseases, 58% on other health-related topics, and 3% on both. Stress and other physiological parameters were the most addressed research topics, followed by viruses, helminths, and bacterial infections. Terrestrial mammals accounted for 75% of all publications, and faeces were the most widely used sample. Our review of the sampling materials and collection methods highlights that, although the use of some types of samples for specific applications is now consolidated, others are perhaps still underutilised and new technologies may offer future opportunities for an even wider use of non-invasively collected samples.
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