De Keyzer, Els L. R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0924-0118
De Corte, Zoë
Van Steenberge, Maarten
Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.
Calboli, Federico C. F.
Kmentová, Nikol
N’Sibula Mulimbwa, Théophile
Virgilio, Massimiliano
Vangestel, Carl
Mulungula, Pascal Masilya
Volckaert, Filip A. M.
Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
VLIR-UOS (NDOC2016PR006)
Grantová Agentura České Republiky (P505/12/G112, P505/12/G112)
Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (CEBioS programme)
BELSPO (PopGenSprat)
Article History
Received: 4 April 2018
Accepted: 11 December 2018
First Online: 8 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Collection of specimens used in the study complied with institutional, national, and international guidelines. Fieldwork in D.R. Congo was carried out with the approval of the CRH – Uvira, which falls under the Congolese Ministry for science and technology (“Ministère National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologie”) under mission statement 031/MINRST/CRH-U/2016. Samples were exported with an export permit from the CRH-Uvira. Sampling in Zambia was carried out with the approval of the Zambian Department of Fisheries under a memorandum of understanding between the University of Basel, the University of Zambia and the Zambian Department of Fisheries. An export permit was obtained from the Department of Fisheries at Mpulungu. Samples were imported in Belgium under import permit CONT/IEC/CHM/1365428 to the RMCA of the Belgian Federal Agency for the safety of the food chain (‘FAVV’). No animals were killed for this study, dead specimens were obtained from local fish markets.
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