Wildlife Nuisance Measures

Deer sex determination kit

Due to the increase in the number of wild deer, feeding damage on crops and plants, such as alpine plants, cedars and cypresses, has been a serious problem. Japanese local governments in various regions are capturing deer in order to control wildlife nuisance.
It is important to accurately discriminate the deer’s sex and capture female deer efficiently to maintain long-term stable populations of deer, reduce damage to agriculture and forestry, prevent ecosystem degradation and preserve biodiversity.
The existing PCR sexing method requires complicated sample preparation and expensive equipment, and is time-consuming. By using our Sika deer sexing kit, you can easily and quickly distinguish the deer sex.
For example, in Shizuoka Prefecture, a high reword fee for capturing female deer was set up to preferentially eliminate female deer by the local government. Our kit was used to confirm the sexes required for calculating the capture bounty, since it can easily and reliably determine the sex from the coat hair from a submitted part of the captured deer (the only lower jaw of the individual).

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Sika Deer Sexing Kit

An inspection kit that distinguishes male and female sika deer.

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Japanese Deer-Serow Discrimination Kit

The damage of sika deer is eroding not only agriculture and forestry, but also serow habitat. It is important to know the distribution area and the density of the population in order to protect serows and take measures to eliminate sika deer. There are survey methods that use sika deer droppings and food marks as traces. However, it is difficult to distinguish sika deer and serow droppings and food marks visually, so it is not possible to grasp the sika deer’s habitat using the traces in areas where there are many serows.
Sika deer and serow identification kit enables easy and quick identification of sika deer and serow by DNA contained in feces and food marks, which can be useful for survey and preventive measures for biodiversity in areas where sika deer and serow coexist.

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Japanese Deer-Serow Discrimination Kit

An inspection kit identifies animal species from sika deer or antelope feces and food marks.

Red tide causative species Detection Kit

Our kits are the product to detect red tide causative plankton by isothermal amplification reaction using LAMP (Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification) method.
Red tide causative plankton is identified by amplification of a part of genomic DNA.
LAMP is fast and easy DNA amplification method which is also used for the diagnosis of influenza virus and detection of other infectious pathogens, exhibiting excellent specificity and sensitivity.
These kits enable all reaction processes to progress at a constant temperature with a simple container such as a Thermos pot.

Red tide causative plankton

Several hundred kinds of phytoplankton lives in the Japanese sea, and approximately 20 kinds bring serious damage for fishery. These kits specifically detect Karenia mikimotoi or a group of Chatonella species, Chattonella marina var. antiqua and Chattonella marina var. ovata, as a harmful kind. The early detection of red tide contributes to prevention of damage expansion in fishery.

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Red tide causative species Detection Kit 1 –Karenia mikimotoi–

A Detection kit for Red tide causative plankton “Karenia mikimotoi” using the Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) method.