Identification of microsatellite markers in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 425-427

  Pai, Aditi ^a   Sharakhov, Igor V ^a,b   Braginets, Olga ^a   Costa, Christina ^a   Yan, Guiyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Microsatellites; Polymorphism; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; TRANSPOSONS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 0041874744     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-8286.2003.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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