Novel universal primers establish identity of an enormous number of animal species for forensic application

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-31

  Verma, S K ^a   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Forensics; Species identification; Universal primers; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037346208     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00340.x     Document Type: Article

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