Identifying species from pieces of faeces

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-111

  Dalén, Love ^a   Götherström, Anders ^a   Angerbjörn, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; DNA; Gulo gulo; PCR; Primers; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

FECES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; GULO GULO; LAGOPUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 10744230085     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000014060.54070.45     Document Type: Article

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