Pyrosequencing faecal DNA to determine diet of little penguins: Is what goes in what comes out?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2039-2048

  Deagle, Bruce E ^a   Chiaradia, André ^b   McInnes, Julie ^b   Jarman, Simon N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b Research Department   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

454 Sequencing; DNA barcoding; Eudyptula minor; GS FLX; Non invasive; Seabird diet

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CLUPEOID; DIET; DNA; FECES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PERCIFORM; SEABIRD; STOMACH CONTENT;

AUSTRALIA;

CEPHALOPODA; CLUPEIDAE; ENGRAULIDAE; EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 77956879874     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-010-0096-6     Document Type: Article

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