Genetic identification of asteroid larvae from Tasmania, Australia, by PCR-RFLP

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1077-1082

  Evans, B S ^a   White, R W G ^a,b   Ward, R D ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asterias amurensis; Asteroid larvae; Coscinasterias muricata; DNA species identification; Echinoderms; Mitochondrial DNA; Patiriella regularis

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ASTERIAS; ASTERIAS AMURENSIS; ASTEROIDEA; COSCINASTERIAS MURICATA; ECHINODERMATA; INVERTEBRATA; PATIRIELLA REGULARIS;

EID: 0031869941     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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