Funding for this research was provided by:
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT-ANR/BIA-EVF/0250/2012, IF/00033/2014/CP1256/CT0005, SFRH/BD/87126/2012)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-12-ISV7-0002-01)
NORTE2020, ERDF (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000007)
Article History
Received: 12 January 2018
Accepted: 25 June 2018
First Online: 30 July 2018
Ethics approval
: No animals were killed for the purpose of this research. The samples were donated from animals shot during regular hunting campaigns or that were found dead. The samples were collected before the Nagoya Protocol entered into force on 12 October 2014. The sampled species have a “least concern” status in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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