Automated forensic animal family identification by nested PCR and melt curve analysis on an off-the-shelf thermocycler augmented with a centrifugal microfluidic disk segment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Keller, Mark ^a,b   Naue, Jana ^a,c,d   Zengerle, Roland ^a,b   Von Stetten, Felix ^a,b   Schmidt, Ulrike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Hahn Schickard   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; REAGENT; RNA 12S;

12S RRNA GENE; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BITE; BOVINE; CANIDAE; CAPRINAE; CENTRIFUGAL MICROFLUIDIC DISK SEGMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME B GENE; DEER; DNA DETERMINATION; EQUIDAE; FAMILIA; FELIDAE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; MELT CURVE ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION SYSTEM; RABBITS AND HARES; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CENTRIFUGATION; DEVICES; FORENSIC SCIENCE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CENTRIFUGATION; FORENSIC SCIENCES; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84940100202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131845     Document Type: Article

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