Molecular species identification of bushmeat recovered from the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: Bushmeat harvesting and consumption represents a potential risk for the spillover of endemic zoonotic pathogens, yet remains a common practice in many parts of the world. Given that the harvesting and selling of bushmeat is illegal in Tanzania and other parts of Africa, the supply chain is informal and may include hunters, whole-sellers, retailers, and individual resellers who typically sell bushmeat in small pieces. These pieces are often further processed, obscuring species-identifying morphological characteristics, contributing to incomplete or mistaken knowledge of species of origin and potentially confounding assessments of pathogen spillover risk and bushmeat offtake. The current investigation sought to identify the species of origin and assess the concordance between seller-reported

SUBMITTER: Schilling MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7489505 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature