Abstract:We evaluated whether MinION, an inexpensive, portable sequencer, can be applied for identifying the animals of origin in crude drugs. Standard and nonstandard crude drugs with different species of origin were examined. In addition, the standards mixed with nonstandard samples were used. As a target gene, cytochrome c oxidase I was amplified and sequenced. The Fast mode results had a slightly lower match ratio than High-accuracy mode, but the animals of origin were correctly determined by BLAST for all samples.… Show more
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