Mongruel, Anna Claudia Baumel
Medici, Emília Patrícia
da Costa Canena, Ariel
Machado, Rosangela Zacarias
Clay, Keith
Labruna, Marcelo Bahia
André, Marcos Rogério
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2019/26403-0, 2020/12037-0)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (303701/2021-8)
Article History
Received: 29 March 2024
Accepted: 3 May 2024
First Online: 7 May 2024
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation of FCAV/UNESP (Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences of the São Paulo State University) under protocol number 4558/20. The “Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBIO)” provided the required annual permits for the capture and immobilization of tapirs and collection of biological samples (SISBIO# 14,603). All protocols for the capture, anesthesia, handling, and sampling of tapirs have been reviewed and approved by the Veterinary Advisors of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) — Tapir Taxon Advisory Group (TAG), and the Veterinary Committee of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group (TSG). Tapir blood DNA samples from the present study were registered in the Brazilian National System for Management of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge (Sistema Nacional de Gestão do Patrimônio Genético e do Conhecimento Tradicional Associado – SISGEN) under register number AE4CC0C.
: The authors declare no competing interests.