Acquiring reef fish DNA sequences from formalin-fixed museum specimens

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 771-776

  Klanten, Selma O ^a,b   Van Herwerden, Lynne ^a   Choat, J Howard ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of California   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EXTRACTION METHOD; FISH; PRESERVATION;

EID: 1942518823     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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