Individual sexing and genotyping from blood spots on the snow: A reliable source of DNA for non-invasive genetic surveys

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 871-874

  Scandura, Massimo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood spots; Non invasive genotyping; Scoring error; Snow tracking; Wolf

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CANID; DNA; GENOTYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SEX DETERMINATION;

EID: 30144437668     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9041-5     Document Type: Review

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