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 - Tracking the origin of worked elephant ivory of a medieval chess piece from Belgium through analysis of ancient DNA
JF - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
Y1 - 2022
DO - 10.1002/oa.3041
A1 - Goffette, Quentin
A1 - Suarez Gonzalez, Nathalie
A1 - Vanmechelen, Raphaël
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
SP - 38 – 48
VL - 32
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oa.3041
IS - 1
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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 - Afrotropical forest-dwelling mongooses (Mammalia: Herpestidae: Crossarchus ) investigated by craniometry and mitochondrial DNA
JF - Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research
Y1 - 2014
DO - 10.1111/jzs.12066
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Colyn, Marc
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
A1 - Nagy, Zoltán T.
A1 - Wendelen, W.
A1 - Van Rompaey, Harry
A1 - Hulselmans, Jan
SP - 323
EP - 330
VL - 52
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/jzs.12066
IS - 4
JO - J Zoolog Syst Evol Res
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Do birds from the Democratic Republic of Congo present in museum collections contain useful genetic information?
JF - Entomologica Romanica
Y1 - 2010
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Breman, Floris C
A1 - Jordaens, Kurt
A1 - Lenglet, Georges
A1 - Louette, Michel
A1 - Montanes, Gloria
A1 - Nagy, Zoltán T.
A1 - Van Houdt, Jeroen K.J.
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
SP - 11
EP - 16
KW - archival DNA
KW - Aves
KW - COI
KW - Democratic Republic of the Congo
KW - DNA barcoding
KW - museum sample
VL - 15
UR - http://www.nhbs.com/bonner_zoologische_monographien_tefno_5027.html
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TY - CHAP
T1 - DNA Barcoding Amphibians and Reptiles
T2 - DNA barcodes
Y1 - 2012
A1 - Vences, Miguel
A1 - Nagy, Zoltán T.
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
ED - Kress, W John
ED - Erickson, David L
SP - 79
EP - 107
JF - DNA barcodes
T3 - Methods in Molecular Biology
VL - 858
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of the Congo River and its tributaries on the rodent genus Praomys: speciation origin or range expansion limit?
JF - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Y1 - 2011
DO - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00733.x
A1 - KENNIS, JAN
A1 - NICOLAS, VIOLAINE
A1 - Hulselmans, Jan
A1 - Katuala, Pionus G B
A1 - WENDELEN, WIM
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
A1 - Dudu, Akaibe M
A1 - LEIRS, HERWIG
SP - 983
EP - 1002
KW - craniometric analysis
KW - cytochrome b
KW - phylogeny
KW - Praomys
KW - river barrier
KW - speciation
VL - 163
IS - 3
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Discovery of a new duiker species (Bovidae: Cephalophinae) from the Dahomey Gap, West Africa
JF - Zootaxa
Y1 - 2010
A1 - Colyn, Marc
A1 - Hulselmans, Jan
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Oudé, Pascal
A1 - De Winter, Jan
A1 - Natta, Armand
A1 - Nagy, Zoltán T.
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
SP - 1–30
KW - bushmeat
KW - craniometry
KW - mitochondrial DNA
KW - new duiker species
KW - nuclear DNA
KW - Philantomba walteri sp. nov.
VL - 2637
UR - http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02637p030f.pdf
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Applicability of DNA barcoding to museum specimens of birds from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
JF - Bonner Zoologische Monographien
Y1 - 2011
A1 - Sonet, Gontran
A1 - Breman, Floris C
A1 - Lenglet, Georges
A1 - Louette, Michel
A1 - Montanes, Gloria
A1 - Nagy, Zoltan T
A1 - Van Houdt, Jeroen
A1 - Verheyen, Erik
SP - 117
EP - 131
KW - archival DNA
KW - Aves
KW - COI
KW - Democratic Republic of the Congo
KW - DNA barcoding
KW - museum sample
VL - 57
UR - http://www.nhbs.com/bonner_zoologische_monographien_tefno_5027.html
ER -