Urine - A source for noninvasive genetic monitoring in wildlife: Technical article

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 208-212

  Hausknecht, Roland ^a   Gula, Roman ^b   Pirga, Bartosz ^b   Kuehn, Ralph ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Individual molecular tracking; Molecular sexing; qPCR; Sampling efficiency; Snow tracking; Wolf

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 33847366615     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01622.x     Document Type: Article

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