DNA-based diet analysis for any predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Dunshea, Glenn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE 2; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DOLPHIN; ENZYME METABOLISM; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RESTRICTION SITE; TELEOST; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH JUICE; ZOO ANIMAL;

CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ODONTOCETI; TELEOSTEI; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; DIET; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65449165259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005252     Document Type: Article

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