Identification of Fungi and Analysis of Their Genetic Diversity by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) with Gene-Specific and Nonspecific Primers

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-159

  Bulat, S A ^a   Mironenko, N V ^b  

^a PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b ALL RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (Russian Federation)

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