Song, Yuan
Li, Wei
Liu, Haifeng
Zhong, Zhijun
Luo, Yan
Wei, Yao
Fu, Wenlong
Ren, Zhihua
Zhou, Ziyao
Deng, Lei
Cheng, Jianguo
Peng, Guangneng
Funding for this research was provided by:
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation (CPF2015-07, CPF2014-12)
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Foundation (CPF2015-09)
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 29 January 2018
First Online: 26 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was performed in accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the Ministry of Health, China. Before experiments, the protocol of the current study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Sichuan Agricultural University under permit number DYY-S20174605. No animals were harmed during the sampling process. Permission was obtained from the relative institutions of the forest musk deer before the collection of faecal specimens.
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