Reviewing population studies for forensic purposes: Dog mitochondrial DNA

ZooKeys

Volumn 365, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2013, Pages 381-411

  Verscheure, Sophie ^a,b   Backeljau, Thierry ^b,c   Desmyter, Stijn ^a  

^a National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dog; Forensics; Mitochondrial DNA; Population study; Random match probability; Sampling strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891614779     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.365.5859     Document Type: Review

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