Establishment of group-specific PCR primers for the identification of freshwater macroinvertebrates

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1091-1093

  Koester, Meike ^a   Claßen, Silke ^b   Gergs, René ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; 28S rDNA; Diversity; Mixed samples; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892862718     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-013-9998-1     Document Type: Article

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