DNA barcoding unveils skate (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) species diversity in 'ray' products sold across Ireland and the UK

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Griffiths, Andrew Mark ^a   Miller, Dana D ^b,c   Egan, Aaron ^b   Fox, Jennifer ^b   Greenfield, Adam ^a   Mariani, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; Elasmobranch; Forensically informative nucleotide sequencing; Mislabelling; Ray; Skate; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; DNA BARCODING; FORELIMB; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IRELAND; MICROPHTHALMIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKATES (FISH); SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885091947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.129     Document Type: Article

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