A multiplex pre-amplification method that significantly improves microsatellite amplification and error rates for faecal DNA in limiting conditions

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 417-420

  Piggott, Maxine P ^a   Bellemain, Eva ^b,c   Taberlet, Pierre ^b   Taylor, Andrea C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Faecal DNA; Non invasive genetic sampling; PCR

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS;

TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 3342935867     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000031138.67958.44     Document Type: Article

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