javascript:void(0)Potential wildlife forensic application
A BLAST search identified five cytB sequences on GenBank that were identical or almost identical (1 bp difference) to those in this study (across 304 bp of overlapping sequence, Fig. A1). These sequences were reported by Xie et al. (2021) for Chinese pangolin samples that were obtained from a pharmaceutical company located in China. Such high similarity indicates these samples may have been derived from the Nepal region and demonstrates the potential power of mtDNA sequencing for wildlife forensic applications. This finding, however, must be considered with caution, due to a lack of knowledge regarding the extent of the genetic haplotype variants revealed in this study.