Ten real-time PCR assays for detection of fish predation at the community level in the San Francisco Estuary-Delta

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 278-284

  Brandl, Scott ^a   Schumer, Gregg ^b   Schreier, Brian M ^c   Conrad, Jessica L ^c   May, Bernie ^a   Baerwald, Melinda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cramer Fish Sciences   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Diet analysis; Environmental DNA; Food webs; Predator prey interactions; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; FISH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; FISHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAN FRANCISCO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84922652304     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12305     Document Type: Article

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