New insights on diet variability revealed by DNA barcoding and high-throughput pyrosequencing: Chamois diet in autumn as a case study

Ecological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-276

  Rayé, Gilles ^a   Miquel, Christian ^a   Coissac, Eric ^a   Redjadj, Claire ^a,b   Loison, Anne ^b   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Alpine chamois; Diet; DNA barcoding; Plant herbivore; Temporal and inter individual variability

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AUTUMN; CHLOROPLAST; CUTICLE; DATABASE; DIET; FECES; HISTOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RUMINANT; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY; WILD POPULATION;

RUPICAPRA; RUPICAPRA RUPICAPRA;

EID: 79952748051     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-010-0780-5     Document Type: Article

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