Hu, Pengfei
Shao, Yuanchen
Xu, Jiaping
Wang, Tianjiao
Li, Yiqing
Liu, Huamiao
Rong, Min
Su, Weilin
Chen, Binxi
Cui, Songhuan
Cui, Xuezhe
Yang, Fuhe
Tamate, Hidetoshi
Xing, Xiumei http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0684-5720
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of China (CAAS-ASTIP-201X-ISAPS)
Article History
Received: 31 August 2018
Accepted: 8 May 2019
First Online: 17 May 2019
Ethics approval
: All procedures concerning animals were organized to accord with the guidelines of care and use of experimental animals established by the Ministry of Agriculture of China, and all protocols were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, China.The IUCN Red List species involved in this study include <i>Cervus eldii</i>, <i>Cervus unicolor</i> and <i>Cervus albirostris</i>, they are artificially bred for species conservation purposes in China, that is in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 25 of the law of the People’s Republic of China on wildlife protection. The deer samples collected in this study were approved by the Department of Wildlife Protection and Nature Reserve Management of the State Forestry Administration and the local government.
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