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20457032

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-20
pubmed:abstractText
The recent expansion of the Italian wolf population through the Apennine and western Alps, after centuries of contractions, is causing conflicts with human activities leading to a rise in poaching or illegal killings. Here we show how molecular population genetics has been used to identify a suspect serial wolf killer. We analysed DNA extracted from a necklace made of ten presumed wolf canine teeth, confiscated in 2008 to a man living in the northern Italian Apennine (Liguria Region). Individual genotypes were determined using 12 unlinked autosomal microsatellites (STRs), mtDNA control-region sequences, a male-specific ZFX/ZFY restriction-site and three Y-linked STRs. Results indicate that the teeth belonged to six different individuals (three males and three females), which were assigned to the Italian wolf population with p > 0.90 by Bayesian procedures. One of these genotypes matched with the genetic profile of a male wolf previously found-dead and already non-invasively sampled in the same area. Another genotype matched with that of a female wolf non-invasively sampled twice in the same area 1 year before. These data are being used as forensic genetic evidence in the ongoing criminal trial against the suspect serial wolf killer.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1878-0326
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
4
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
334-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Forensic DNA against wildlife poaching: identification of a serial wolf killing in Italy.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Laboratory of Genetics, Via Cà Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (BO), Italy. romolo.caniglia@gmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't