Mitotyping of necropsy samples from Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivorie

To molecularly verify the species of duiker carcasses found in TNP, we used a conventional PCR targeting a 709 bp segment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase. Amplicons of the expected size were purified and sent for Sanger sequencing. All resulting sequences were compared against the core nucleotide database of NCBI using BLASTn. For duikers N230505, N190204 and N200122 the PCR amplified a NUMT which are included. Also available is a bam file of competitive maps of N230505 HTS data to a collection of duiker mitochondrial genomes for species ID.