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Knowledge graph centered on Marmot blood sampling for viral screening (Sciuridae) with 22 nodes and 64 connections. Top connected: Marmota flaviventris, small mammals, Marmota monax, prairie dogs, Otospermophilus beecheyi.
Blood collection from trapped wild marmots via femoral vein puncture during routine handling for long-term population studies. Sera separated and frozen for later laboratory analysis.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 2 papers using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — Is the hepatitis virus absent from yellow-bellied marmots? (2003), Oecologia Montana. Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.