Fecal DNA methods for differentiating grizzly bears from American black bears

Ursus

Volumn 12, Issue , 2000, Pages 237-240

  Clarke, Christine M ^a   Fangman, Jennifer A ^a   Wasser, Samuel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Black bears; Fecal DNA; Grizzly bears; PCR; Polymerase chain reaction; Restriction fragment length polymorphisms; RFLPs; Species identification; Ursus americanus; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349111869     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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