PCR techniques as diagnostic tools for the identification and enumeration of toxic marine phytoplankton species

NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 261-284

  Penna, Antonella ^a   Galluzzi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

HAB species; Mediterranean Sea; Molecular techniques; PCR; Primers; rRNA genes

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 47849126385     PISSN: 18714668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8480-5_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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