Karthy Sivapushanam

Molecular Identification of Captive Snakes from their Shed Skin Using Cyt b & 12s rRNA Markers

Karthy Sivapushanam, Abinaya Nadarajan, Vaishnavi Chandramouli, Kanchana Rangasamy & Debasis Jana · Journal of Applied Life Sciences International · 2022

Aims: To successfully utilize non-invasive shed skin samples for species identification of captive snake species of Tamil Nadu and create genetic repository. Study Design: The experiment was designed to apply the ammonium acetate method of DNA extraction from shed skin. Two mitoc...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jalsi/2022/v25i430302

A Descriptive Study of Hair Morphology of Three Carnivore families (Canidae, Ursidae and Herpestidae)

Karthy Sivapushanam, Prema Murugesan, D. Vasanthakumari, Kanchana Rangasamy & Debasis Jana · Asian Journal of Research in Zoology · 2022

Aim: To study the morphological characteristics of dorsal guard hair of five carnivoran species native to Tamil Nadu for the creation of an identification key for application in wildlife forensics. Study Design: The experiment was designed to observe the physical characters of ea...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajriz/2022/v5i130126

A Simple and Effective Phenol-Chloroform Method of DNA Extraction from Mammalian Feces

Abinaya Nadarajan, Karthy Sivapushanam, Kanchana Ramasamy, Debasis Jana & Pradeep Anbazhagan · Asian Journal of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering · 2022

Aims: To non-invasively collect the fecal samples of 12 different mammals and devise a simple method of fecal DNA extraction using a modified phenol-chloroform procedure of DNA isolation for species identification. Study Design:  The experiment was laid out to check the applicabi...

Open access Research Article