Ecological interaction between sympatric Mytilus species on the west coast of Canada investigated using PCR markers

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 443-447

  Heath, D D ^a,b   Hatcher, D R ^a   Hilbish, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Marine mussels; Mytilus californianus; Mytilus trossulus; Open coast; Species markers

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030161962     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00334.x     Document Type: Article

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