Isolation of DNA from small amounts of elephant ivory

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2228-2232

  Mailand, Celia ^a   Wasser, Samuel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; NITROGEN; DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA ISOLATION; ELEPHANT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; IVORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DECALCIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DNA; ELEPHANTS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38449115156     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.318     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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