Population aggregation analysis of three caviar-producing species of sturgeons and implications for the species identification of black caviar

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 766-775

  Birstein, Vadim J ^a   Doukakis, Phaedra ^a   Sorkin, Boris ^a   Desalle, Rob ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOCK IDENTIFICATION;

ACIPENSER GUELDENSTAEDTI; ACIPENSER GUELDENSTAEDTII; ACIPENSER STELLATUS; ACIPENSERIDAE; ACIPENSERIFORMES; HUSO HUSO;

EID: 0031711523     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.97081.x     Document Type: Article

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