NUCLEAR C-MOS GENE FOR FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF CROCODILE SPECIES

A reliable wild animal?s recognition system is necessary for quick allowance of the justice linking wildlife crimes. Development of molecular methods is befitting the need of the time, this study reports new primers able to amplifying fragment from nuclear protein coding genes in six crocodile species i.e. oocyte maturation factor (c-mos). These novel primers amplify 490bp of coding region; this region can be used as an efficient tool for forensic discrimination of crocodiles species. In this study mentioned primers likely to be useful in both population analyses as well as for forensic discrimination of selected crocodile species.