Species Identification of The Suspected Bear Palms by The Genes of Cytb and COI

Hsing-Mei Hsieh ； James Chun-I Lee ； Ya-Ling Yang ； Yuan-Ning Chen ； Li-Chin Tsai

《Forensic Science Journal》 16卷1期 (2017/12) Pp. 13-18

https://doi.org/10.6593/FSJ.2017.1601.02

摘要

We reported on a case of species identification for three confiscated specimens suspected to be from bear palms. All the species of Ursidae are listed on the CITES appendices and IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. To identify the unambiguous species of confiscated animal products which are suspected from bears is very important for the purpose of wildlife conservation. In this case, cytb and COI genes of mitochondrial genome were used to identify the animal species of these confiscated specimens. The results showed that these three animal palms were identified as the species of Ursidae : one is from Ursus thibetanus, the others are from Helarctos malayanus. These two species are listed on the appendix I of CITES and classified as ＂Vulnerable＂ by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

關鍵字

Ursidae ； animal species identification ； cytb ； COI