Farhadinia, Mohammad S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5385-6254
Ashrafzadeh, Mohammad Reza
Senn, Helen
Ashrafi, Sohrab
Farahmand, Hamid
Ghazali, Muhammad
Hunter, Luke T. B.
Macdonald, David W.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Oxford
Article History
Received: 9 March 2020
Accepted: 20 May 2020
First Online: 9 June 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: For dead samples; no ethical approval was needed. Sampling was conducted based on permissions number 31/12630 and 93/16258 issued by the Iranian Department of Environment. We also obtained samples from live individuals captured for a satellite telemetry study in Tandroueh National Park. The Iranian Department of Environment reviewed all sampling, trapping, and handling procedures and approved permits for the work conducted (93/16270). The trapping and handling protocol was also approved by the University of Oxford’s Ethical Review Committee (BMS-ERC-160614).
: All authors agreed to participate in this study and co-authorship.
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