Singh, Sujeet Kumar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3671-1328
De, Rahul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4518-9607
Sharma, Reeta https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9862-9218
Maheshwari, Aishwarya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6338-4254
Joshi, Bheem Dutt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6534-1119
Sharma, Diwakar
Sathyakumar, Sambandam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2027-4706
Habib, Bilal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0040-6214
Goyal, Surendra Prakash https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2284-8796
Funding for this research was provided by:
Rufford Foundation
Article History
Received: 23 August 2021
Accepted: 21 June 2022
First Online: 26 July 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflict of interests.
: This study did not involve handling of live animals. We used tissue samples from the repository of Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India. Non-invasive faecal samples used in this study were collected under an earlier study by one of the authors and the permission was accorded by the erstwhile Department of Wildlife Protection, Government of Jammu and Kashmir.
: Not applicable as the study did not include any human participants.
: Not applicable as this study does not contain data from any individual person. All authors approved and consented to the submission of the final draft manuscript.