Optimization of novel polymorphic microsatellites in the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 194-196

  Scott, C ^a   Foose, T ^b   Morales, J C ^c   Fernando, P ^c   Melnick, D J ^c   Boag, P T ^a   Davila, J A ^d   Van Coeverden De Groot, P J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b White Oak Holdings   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetics; Heterozygosity; Microsatellite; Sumatran rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; DICERORHINUS SUMATRENSIS; MAMMALIA; RHINOCEROS; RHINOCEROTIDAE; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 2542428609     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00611.x     Document Type: Article

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