Advances in multiplex PCR: Balancing primer efficiencies and improving detection success

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 898-905

  Sint, Daniela ^a   Raso, Lorna ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diagnostic PCR; PCR optimisation; Primer sensitivity; Standardise DNA templates; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870934222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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