Lost in translation or deliberate falsification? Genetic analyses reveal erroneous museum data for historic penguin specimens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1684, 2010, Pages 1057-1064

  Boessenkool, Sanne ^a   Star, Bastiaan ^b   Paul Scofield, R ^c   Seddon, Philip J ^a   Waters, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Assignment test; Error; Fraud; Historic specimens; Megadyptes antipodes; New zealand

Indexed keywords

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MUSEUM; SEABIRD;

MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 77950797959     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1837     Document Type: Article

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