A simple method to distinguish two commercially valuable eel species in Japan Anguilla japonica and A. anguilla using polymerase chain reaction strategy with a species-specific primer

Fisheries Science

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 414-421

  Sezaki, Keijiro ^a,b   Itoi, Shiro ^a,c   Watabe, Shugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Frozen Foods Inspection Corporation   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Anguilla anguilla; Anguilla japonica; Eel; mtDNA; Species specific primer

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA JAPONICA; ANGUILLIFORMES; JAPONICA;

EID: 18844444515     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2005.00979.x     Document Type: Article

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