Saving the Rhino : Veterinary Genetics Laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the forefront of the fight against rhino poaching
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Van Blerk, Chris
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The poaching of rhinos has reached alarming levels in 2010. With the specific aim of providing a tool to support the forensic investigation of the poaching cases, the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory of the Faculty at the Onderstepoort Campus established a method to successfully extract nuclear DNA from rhinoceros horn and genotype it using a set of DNA markers.
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Faculty of Veterinary Science, News media coverage of, Rhino poaching, DNA forensics, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory