Do dead fish tell tales? DNA degradation in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) carcasses

Northwest Science

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-147

  Copeland, Timothy ^a   Kozfkay, Christine C ^b   Johnson, June ^a   Campbell, Matthew R ^b  

^a IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b Idaho Department of Fish ard Game   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MORTALITY; SALMONID; SPAWNING GROUND; STREAM;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS SP.; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 66749106252     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.083.0205     Document Type: Article

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