Identification of the Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata) and the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) by copro-DNA diagnosis

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 206-210

  Jiang, Weibin ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^a,b   Li, Min ^a   Wang, Zhenghuan ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Natural History Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Non invasive sampling; PCR RFLP; Species identification; Tibetan foxes

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; HELMINTH DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; FOX; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; FOXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIBET;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; VULPES; VULPES FERRILATA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 78650093812     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02906.x     Document Type: Article

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