Assessment of the universality and utility of a set of conserved mitochondrial COI primers in insects

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 143-150

  Zhang, D X ^a   Hewitt, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cytechrome oxidase I; evolutionary PCR contamination; mtDNA; nuclear mitochondrial like sequences; polymersee chain reaction; versatile and degenerate primers

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031149615     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1997.tb00082.x     Document Type: Article

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