2000 Year-old ancient equids: An ancient-DNA lesson from Pompeii remains

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 302, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 550-556

  Di Bernardo, Giovanni ^b   Del Gaudio, Stefania ^b   Galderisi, Umberto ^b   Cipollaro, Marilena ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BONE AND BONES; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; HORSES; ITALY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 11144254982     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21017     Document Type: Article

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