Plucked hair samples as a source of DNA: Reliability of dinucleotide microsatellite genotyping

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1237-1241

  Goossens, B ^a,b   Waits, L P ^a   Taberlet, P ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic typing; Hair; Marmota marmota; Multiple tubes approach; Noninvasive genetic sampling; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DNA ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MARMOTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA;

EID: 0032170154     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00407.x     Document Type: Article

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