About the Authors
- Wasim Shehzad
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Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Thomas Michael McCarthy
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Affiliation Snow Leopard Program, Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America
- Francois Pompanon
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Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Lkhagvajav Purevjav
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Affiliation Snow Leopard Conservation Fund, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Eric Coissac
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Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Tiayyba Riaz
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Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Pierre Taberlet
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* E-mail: pierre.taberlet@ujf-grenoble.fr
Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Competing Interests
EC, TR and PT are co-inventors of a pending French patent application entitled “Amorces universelles et leurutilisation pour la détection et l'identification d'espèces devertébrés” which has been submitted in France on 26 May 2011. Reference number: FR 11/54606, on the primer pair named 12SV5F and 12SV5R and on the use of the amplified fragment for identifying vertebrate species from environmental samples. This patent only restricts commercial applications and has no impact on the use of this method by academic researchers. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: WS FP PT. Performed the experiments: WS. Analyzed the data: TR EC WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC. Wrote the paper: WS PT TMM. Field sampling: TMM LP. Primer design: TR EC.