Prey choice by carabid beetles feeding on an earthworm community analysed using species- and lineage-specific PCR primers

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1721-1732

  King, R Andrew ^a   Vaughan, Ian P ^a   Bell, James R ^a,b   Bohan, David A ^b   Symondson, William O C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Lumbricidae; Mitochondrial DNA; Multiplex PCR; Pterostichus melanarius

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALLOLOBOPHORA CHLOROTICA; APHIDIDAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; LUMBRICIDAE; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS;

EID: 77950240195     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04602.x     Document Type: Article

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