Mitochondrial genomes of deceased caracal (Caracal caracal) in the Western Cape region of South Africa
Anal swabs samples were taken from deceased caracals and stored in UTM viral transport media. 1 ml of the UTM viral transport media was filtered through a 0.22 m syringe filter. 200 ul of the filtrate was then used to extract DNA . Circular molecules in the viral DNA extraction were enriched using rolling-circle amplification (RCA) with the TempliPhi kit (GE Healthcare, USA).