Where is the game? Wild meat products authentication in South Africa: A case study

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  D'Amato, Maria Eugenia ^a   Alechine, Evguenia ^b   Cloete, Kevin Wesley ^a   Davison, Sean ^a   Corach, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biltong; conservation; Cytb; DNA barcoding; Food forensics; Meat; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; DAMALISCUS PYGARGUS; DECISION MAKING; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EQUUS ZEBRA; FOOD ANALYSIS; GAME ANIMAL; GENETIC DISTANCE; HORSE; MEAT; MEAT INDUSTRY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; ANIMALIA; ANTIDORCAS MARSUPIALIS; BOS; DAMALISCUS PYGARGUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ZEBRA; GIRAFFIDAE; KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS; ORYX GAZELLA; STRUTHIONIFORMES; SUIDAE; TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84876060080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-4-6     Document Type: Article

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