Quantification of copepod gut content by differential length amplification quantitative PCR (dla-qPCR)

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-259

  Troedsson, Christofer ^a   Simonelli, Paolo ^a   Nägele, Verena ^b   Nejstgaard, Jens C ^c   Frischer, Marc E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIFOB   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTACEAN; DIGESTION; FILTER FEEDING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INGESTION RATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOMACH CONTENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; COPEPODA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA;

EID: 58549106807     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-1079-8     Document Type: Article

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