Assessment of three mitochondrial genes (16S, Cytb, CO1) for identifying species in the Praomyini tribe (Rodentia: Muridae)

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Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nicolas, Violaine ^a   Schaeffer, Brigitte ^b   Missoup, Alain Didier ^a,c   Kennis, Jan ^d   Colyn, Marc ^e   Denys, Christiane ^a   Tatard, Caroline ^f   Cruaud, Corinne ^g   Laredo, Catherine ^b,h  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UR341 National Agronomical Research Institute (INRA)   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^f CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S GENE; ARTICLE; CO1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTB GENE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRAOMYINI TRIBE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

BOS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MURIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84860508725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036586     Document Type: Article

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