Use of DNA fingerprinting to determine parentage in muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 356-360

  Marinelli, L ^a   Messier, F ^a   Plante, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b SASKATCHEWAN RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; DNA TRANSFER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MAMMAL; PARENTHOOD; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, WILD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; MALE; MICROTINAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027105071     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a111231     Document Type: Article

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