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Wildlife forensics in battle against veneration frauds in Uttarakhand, India: identification of protected Indian monitor lizard in items available in the local market under the name of Hatha Jodi

Ankita RajpootMolecular Systematic Laboratory, Zoological Survey of India, NRC, Dehradun, India; ;MAATY Biodiversity Conservation and Societal Research Organization, Dehradun, India; Correspondence[email protected]
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Ved Prakash KumarMAATY Biodiversity Conservation and Societal Research Organization, Dehradun, India; ;Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-7007-9891View further author information
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Archana BahugunaMolecular Systematic Laboratory, Zoological Survey of India, NRC, Dehradun, India; View further author information
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Tribhuwan SinghMAATY Biodiversity Conservation and Societal Research Organization, Dehradun, India; View further author information
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Sunny JoshiMAATY Biodiversity Conservation and Societal Research Organization, Dehradun, India; View further author information
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Dhyanendra KumarMAATY Biodiversity Conservation and Societal Research Organization, Dehradun, India; ;Veer Kunwar Singh University, Arrah, IndiaView further author information
Pages 925-932 | Received 25 Jan 2018, Accepted 08 Jul 2018, Published online: 17 Aug 2018

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Figure 1. Samples purchase from online website and local market in Uttarakhand.

Figure 1. Samples purchase from online website and local market in Uttarakhand.

Table 1. Details of samples purchased from online website and local market of Uttarakhand.

Figure 2. Cytochrome b (A) and 16s ribosomal RNA (B) sequences based Neighbor-Joining (NJ) tree of purchased samples with previously published references sequences (Rajpoot et al., Citation2016) of four Indian Varanus species.

Figure 2. Cytochrome b (A) and 16s ribosomal RNA (B) sequences based Neighbor-Joining (NJ) tree of purchased samples with previously published references sequences (Rajpoot et al., Citation2016) of four Indian Varanus species.

Table 2. Cytochrome b sequences based multiple sequences alignment of purchased samples (Hatha Jodi) from local market of Uttarakhand with our previously published reference sequences (Rajpoot et. al., Citation2016) of four Indian Varanus species.

Table 3. 16S rRNA sequences based multiple sequences alignment of purchased samples (Hatha Jodi) from local market of Uttarakhand with our previously published reference sequences (Rajpoot et. al., Citation2016) of four Indian Varanus species.

Table 4. Species similarity and percent scores generated using BLAST and CLUSTALW (with references samples) by comparison of Cyt b (396 bp) and 16S rRNA (470 bp) query sequences of the present study samples.

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