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Jan E Janecka1, Yuguang Zhang1, Diqiang Li1

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282; Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China; The Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Beijing, China; Institute of General and Experimental Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Irbis Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Bhutan Foundation, Washington, DC; Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; Center for Molecular Dynamics, Kathmandu, Nepal; Panthera, New York, NY; Center for Nature and Society, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Shan Shui Conservation Center, Beijing, China; Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, WA; Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India; Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Baltistan Wildlife Conservation and Development Organization, Skardu, Pakistan; Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Vienna, Austria; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; and Snow Leopard Conservancy, Sonoma, CA 95476.

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