The extraction of DNA from formalin-fixed, ethanol-preserved reptile and amphibian tissues

Herpetological Review

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 86-87

  Chatigny, Mark E ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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