Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: Marketplace forensics and CITES Caviar trade regulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Doukakis, Phaedra ^a,b,c   Pikitch, Ellen K ^b   Rothschild, Anna ^c   DeSalle, Rob ^c   Amato, George ^c   Kolokotronis, Sergios Orestis ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH GENETICS; FISH MEAT; GENE SEQUENCE; HABITAT; MARKET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PADDLEFISH; POLICY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STURGEON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; COMMERCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH PRODUCTS; FISHES; FORENSIC GENETICS;

ACIPENSERIDAE; POLYODONTIDAE (FISH);

EID: 84864352342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040907     Document Type: Article

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