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Evaluation of Fecal Storage and DNA Extraction Methods in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)

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Acknowledgments

We thank C. Ebert and T. Schikora for sample collection. We also thank C. Ebert, D. Huckschlag, and U. Hohmann for helpful discussions about the manuscript. Furthermore, we wish to thank R. Heydenreich for proofreading the manuscript and statistical advice, and we are grateful to T. Bürgi for technical assistance. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for the comments on the manuscript. This project was supported by the Foundation Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation and the Ministry for Environment, Forestry and Consumer Protection, Rhineland-Palatinate. KK was also supported through a Ph.D. scholarship from the Lotto Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate.

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    Karolina Kolodziej, Holger K. Schulz, Kathrin Theissinger & Ralf Schulz

  2. Molecular Zoology, Institute of Zoology, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, D-85354, Freising, Germany

    Ivan Nikolov

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Kolodziej, K., Nikolov, I., Schulz, H.K. et al. Evaluation of Fecal Storage and DNA Extraction Methods in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). Biochem Genet 51, 406–412 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10528-013-9573-1

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