Room temperature DNA storage with slide-mounted aphid specimens

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 447-451

  Miller, Gary L ^a   Carmichael, Andrew ^a   Favret, Colin ^a   Scheffer, Sonja J ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcode; COI; COII; DNA storage; Filter paper; Sternorrhyncha

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878186116     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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