Genetic Contamination of an SJL/J Mouse Colony: Rapid Detection by PCR-based Microsatellite Analysis

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 54-55

  Benavides, Fernando J ^a,b  

^a INST DE INVEST HEMATOLOGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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