Preservation of corals in salt-saturated DMSO buffer is superior to ethanol for PCR experiments

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-333

  Gaither, M R ^a   Szabo Z ^a   Crepeau, M W ^b   Bird, C E ^a   Toonen, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Preservation methods; qPCR; Real time quantitative PCR; Scleractinian coral; Storage solutions

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ETHANOL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESERVATION; REAL TIME; SAMPLING;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 79955926844     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0687-1     Document Type: Article

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