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DNA-based diet estimation techniques: From toothed whales to Antarctic fish and snails. Australian Marine Sciences Association 48th Annual Conference, 3-7 July 2011, 2011 (Ref: 14944)
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For many species trophic interactions are difficult to study because of their cryptic habits and/or the unfavourable characteristics of samples for traditional diet techniques. DNA-based diet techniques are sensitive…

DNA-Based Diet Analysis for Any Predator PLoS ONE, 2009 (Ref: 13773)
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Background: Prey DNA from diet samples can be used as a dietary marker; yet current methods for prey detection require a … priori diet knowledge and/or are designed ad hoc, limiting their scope. I present a general approach to detect diverse prey … in the feces or gut contents of predators.

Pseudogenes and DNA-based diet analyses: a cautionary tale from a relatively well sampled predator-prey system Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2008 (Ref: 13350)
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Mitochondrial ribosomal DNA is commonly used in DNA-based dietary … analyses. In such studies, these sequences are generally assumed to be the … only version present in DNA of the organism of interest. However…

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