Molecular scatology: The use of molecular genetic analysis to assign species, sex and individual identity to seal faeces

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 225-234

  Reed, J Z ^a   Tollit, D J ^b   Thompson, P M ^b   Amos, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diet; DNA extraction; faecal DNA; microsatellites; pinnipeds; VNTR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031105089     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1997.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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