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Individual sexing and genotyping from blood spots on the snow: A reliable source of DNA for non-invasive genetic surveys

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Acknowledgements

I am particularly grateful to Elisa Avanzinelli, Paola Bertotto, Claudia Capitani, Andrea Gazzola, Paolo Lamberti, Luca Mattioli and Alessia Viviani for sample collection, and to Francesca Di Benedetto and Laura Iacolina for technical assistance. I would also like to thank Marco Apollonio, Giorgio Bertorelle, Paolo Francalacci, Carles Vilà and the editor for helpful comments on the manuscript. Financial support for the study was provided by the Provincial Administration of Arezzo.

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  1. Dipartimento di Zoologia e Antropologia Biologica, Università di Sassari, Via Muroni 25, 07100, Sassari, Italy

    Massimo Scandura

  2. Lehrstuhl für Verhaltensforschung, Universität Bielefeld, Morgenbreede 45, D-33615, Bielefeld, Germany

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Scandura, M. Individual sexing and genotyping from blood spots on the snow: A reliable source of DNA for non-invasive genetic surveys. Conserv Genet 6, 871–874 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-005-9041-5

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