Wildlife molecular forensics: Identification of the Sardinian mouflon using STR profiling and the Bayesian assignment test

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-349

  Lorenzini, Rita ^a   Cabras, Pierangela ^b   Fanelli, Rita ^a   Carboni, Giuseppe L ^c  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

^c Servizio Territoriale Ispettorato Ripartimentale del Corpo Forestale e di VA di Lanusei   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assignment test; Mouflon; Poaching; Species identification; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; CARCASS; FORENSIC GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARDINIAN MOUFLON; SHEEP; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRIME; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 79957661926     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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