Use and Guidelines for Plant DNA Analyses in Forensics

Forensic Botany: A Practical Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-106

  Gitzendanner, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding, new possibilities in forensic botany; Genetic analysis, applications in botanical forensic samples; Genetic differences, basis of DNA investigations; Identification of population of origin, and marker based methods; Microsatellites, as genetic markers, microsatellite data in forensics; Non technical users, and genetic analyses in forensic botany; Plant DNA analyses in forensics, use and guidelines; Power of plant forensics, lacking a CODIS like database; Species identification through DNA barcoding; Species identification using DNA sequences, and DNA bases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886175024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119945734.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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