The real maccoyii: Identifying tuna sushi with DNA barcodes - Contrasting characteristic attributes and genetic distances

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Lowenstein, Jacob H ^a,b   Amato, George ^a   Kolokotronis, Sergios Orestis ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TUNA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATERING SERVICE; CLASSIFICATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEA FOOD; UNITED STATES;

GEMPYLIDAE; LEPIDOCYBIUM; SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS; THUNNUS ALALUNGA; THUNNUS MACCOYII; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

ANIMALS; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; PHYLOGENY; RESTAURANTS; SEAFOOD; TUNA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70849093809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007866     Document Type: Article

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