Schneider, Judith
Mas-CarriĆ³, Eduard
Jan, Catherine
Miquel, Christian
Taberlet, Pierre
Michaud, Katarzyna
Fumagalli, Luca
Article History
Received: 26 April 2020
Accepted: 12 April 2021
First Online: 23 April 2021
Competing interests
: The authors note that P.T. is co-inventor of a patent related to the Sper01 primers and the use of the P6 loop of the chloroplast trn<i>L</i> (UAA) intron for plant identification using degraded template DNA. P.T. and C.M. are co-inventors of a patent related to the Vert01 primers for vertebrate identification using degraded template DNA. These patents only restrict commercial applications and have no impact on the use of these loci by academic researchers. All other authors declare no competing interests.