A simple and innovative method for species identification of phytoplankton cells on minute quantities of DNA

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 715-719

  Masseret, Estelle ^a   Enquebecq, Marjorie ^a   Laabir, Mohamed ^a   Genovesi, Benjamin ^a   Vaquer, André ^a   Avarre, Jean Christophe ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDRIUM; ALEXANDRIUM CATENELLA; ALEXANDRIUM TAMARENSE; ALGAE; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 78649691107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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