author(s)
Kush Shrivastava, Rebeka Sinha and Mohan Singh Thakur

abstract
Molecular DNA markers are now gaining importance in wildlife conservation. Use of markers in identification of gene/ region in DNA, studying polymorphism, trait association and in marker assisted breeding schemes have now become ubiquitous in animal and plant breeding systems. Nuclear and mitochondrial genomic DNA are now being utilized in estimation of inbreeding, recent bottlenecks, genetic structure of population, migration and evolution pattern. The current review aims at providing a brief information about the use of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in wildlife conservation and discuss in brief about non invasive DNA genotyping.