Extraction of nuclear DNA from rhinoceros horn and characterization of DNA profiling systems for white (Ceratotherium simum) and black (Diceros bicornis) rhinoceros

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 428-433

  Harper, Cindy K ^a   Vermeulen, Gerhard J ^b   Clarke, Amy B ^a   De Wet, Jacobus I ^c   Guthrie, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE   (South Africa)

^c SANParks   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African rhinoceros; Genotyping; Microsatellite; Short tandem repeat analysis

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCASS; CERATOTHERIUM SIMUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICEROS BICORNIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HORN; MAMMAL; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; PERISSODACTYLA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84878146014     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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