A Rapid Genetic Assay for the Identification of the Most Common Pocillopora damicornis Genetic Lineages on the Great Barrier Reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Torda, Gergely ^a,b   Schmidt Roach, Sebastian ^b,c   Peplow, Lesa M ^b   Lundgren, Petra ^b,d   van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TESTING; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84874728816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058447     Document Type: Article

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