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Using FIT to look at relatedness in Cheetah

October 11, 2017 · WildTrack

Our PhD student Larissa Slaney, based at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh UK, is using FIT to investigate relatedness between cheetah. If the technique can be shown to work it will be many times...

Our PhD student Larissa Slaney, based at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh UK, is using FIT to investigate relatedness between cheetah. If the technique can be shown to work it will be many times less expensive than DNA-based methods.

The BBC interviews Larissa here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05jmddq