Molecular archeology of ancient bone from 400 year old shipwreck

Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Ariffn, Shahrul Hisham Zainal ^a   Wahab, Rohaya Megat Abdul ^a   Zamrod, Zulkefie ^a   Sahar, Samsol ^b   Razak, Mohd Fauzi Abd ^a   Ariffn, Eni Juliana ^a   Senaf, Sahidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b Department of Orthodontics Faculty of Dentistry UKM ^*  (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ancient mitochondrial DNA; Human bones; PCR amplifcation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349152568     PISSN: 01287451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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