TY - JOUR
T1 - Barcoding and traditional health practitioner perspectives are informative to monitor and conserve frogs and reptiles traded for traditional medicine in urban South Africa
JF - Molecular Ecology Resources
Y1 - 2023
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.13873
A1 - Phaka, Fortunate M.
A1 - Netherlands, Edward C.
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Hugé, Jean
A1 - du Preez, Louis H.
A1 - Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
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AbstractPrevious literature suggests that Indigenous cultural practices, specifically traditional medicine, are commonplace among urban communities contrary to the general conception that such practices are restricted to rural societies. We reviewed previous literature for records of herptiles (frog and reptile species) sold by traditional health practitioners in urban South Africa, then used visual confirmation surveys, DNA barcoding and folk taxonomy to identify the herptile species that were on sale. Additionally, we interviewed 11 IsiZulu and SePedi speaking traditional health practitioners to document details of the collection and pricing of herptile specimens along with the practitioners' views of current conservation measures for traditional medicine markets. The 34 herptile species recorded in previous literature on traditional medicine markets included endangered and non‐native species. Spectrophotometry measurements of the DNA we extracted from the tissue of herptiles used in traditional medicine were an unreliable predictor of whether those extractions would be suitable for further experimental work. From our initial set of 111 tissue samples, 81 sequencing reactions were successful and 55 of those sequences had species‐level matches to COI reference sequences on the NCBI GenBank and/or BOLD databases. Molecular identification revealed that traditional health practitioners correctly labelled 77% of the samples that we successfully identified with DNA barcoding in this study. Our mixed methodology approach is useful for conservation planning as it updates knowledge of animal use in Indigenous remedies and can accurately identify species of high conservation priority. Furthermore, this study highlights the possibility of collaborative conservation planning with traditional health practitioners.
VL - Online
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13873
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Population genomics of introduced Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Repeated introductions since colonial times with multiple sources
JF - Molecular Ecology
Y1 - 2022
DO - 10.1111/mec.16479
A1 - Geraerts, Mare
A1 - Vangestel, Carl
A1 - Artois, Tom
A1 - Fernandes, Jorge Manuel de Oliveira
A1 - Jorissen, Michiel W. P.
A1 - Chocha Manda, Auguste
A1 - Danadu Mizani, Célestin
A1 - Smeets, Karen
A1 - Snoeks, Jos
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Tingbao, Yang
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
A1 - Vreven, Emmanuel
A1 - Lunkayilakio Wamuini, Soleil
A1 - Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
A1 - Huyse, Tine
SP - 3304 – 3322
VL - 31
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.16479
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Hidden biodiversity in an ancient lake: phylogenetic congruence between Lake Tanganyika tropheine cichlids and their monogenean flatworm parasites
JF - Scientific Reports
Y1 - 2015
DO - 10.1038/srep13669
A1 - Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
A1 - Pariselle, Antoine
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
A1 - Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.
A1 - Hablützel, Pascal I.
A1 - Gillardin, Céline
A1 - Hellemans, Bart
A1 - Breman, Floris C.
A1 - Koblmüller, Stephan
A1 - Sturmbauer, Christian
A1 - Snoeks, Jos
A1 - Volckaert, Filip A. M.
A1 - Huyse, Tine
VL - 5
UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/srep13669
IS - 1
JO - Sci Rep
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TY - JOUR
T1 - DNA barcoding fishes from the Congo and the Lower Guinean provinces: assembling a reference library for poorly inventoried fauna
JF - Molecular Ecology Resources
Y1 - 2019
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.12983
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Snoeks, Jos
A1 - Nagy, Zoltán T.
A1 - Vreven, Emmanuel
A1 - Boden, Gert
A1 - Breman, Floris C.
A1 - Decru, Eva
A1 - Hanssens, Mark
A1 - Ibala Zamba, Armel
A1 - Jordaens, Kurt
A1 - Mamonekene, Victor
A1 - Musschoot, Tobias
A1 - Van Houdt, Jeroen
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
A1 - Wamuini, Soleil Lunkayilakio
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
SP - 728
EP - 743
VL - 19
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1755-0998.12983
IS - 3
JO - Mol Ecol Resour
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TY - JOUR
T1 - First genomic study on Lake Tanganyika sprat Stolothrissa tanganicae: a lack of population structure calls for integrated management of this important fisheries target species
JF - BMC Evolutionary Biology
Y1 - 2019
DO - 10.1186/s12862-018-1325-8
A1 - De Keyzer, Els L. R.
A1 - De Corte, Zoë
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
A1 - Raeymaekers, Joost A. M.
A1 - Calboli, Federico C. F.
A1 - Kmentová, Nikol
A1 - N’Sibula Mulimbwa, Théophile
A1 - Virgilio, Massimiliano
A1 - Vangestel, Carl
A1 - Mulungula, Pascal Masilya
A1 - Volckaert, Filip A. M.
A1 - Vanhove, Maarten P. M.
SP - 6
VL - 19
UR - https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-018-1325-8
IS - 1
JO - BMC Evol Biol
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing the potential of DNA barcoding in vertebrate radiations: the case of the littoral cichlids (Pisces, Perciformes, Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
JF - Molecular Ecology Resources
Y1 - 2016
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.12523
A1 - Breman, Floris C.
A1 - Loix, Sara
A1 - Jordaens, Kurt
A1 - Snoeks, Jos
A1 - Van Steenberge, Maarten
SP - n/a
EP - n/a
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1755-0998.12523
JO - Mol Ecol Resour
ER -