Advances in DNA metabarcoding for food and wildlife forensic species identification

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 408, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4615-4630

  Staats, Martijn ^a   Arulandhu, Alfred J ^a   Gravendeel, Barbara ^b   Holst Jensen, Arne ^c   Scholtens, Ingrid ^a   Peelen, Tamara ^d   Prins, Theo W ^a   Kok, Esther ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d Dutch Customs Laboratory   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species; Cytochrome c oxidase I; Endangered species; Next generation sequencing; Wildlife forensic samples

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BAR CODES; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION; DIAGNOSIS; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORENSIC SAMPLES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

GENE ENCODING;

DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DNA BARCODING; FOOD; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PLANT; PROCEDURES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FOOD; FORENSIC GENETICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PLANTS;

EID: 84968611354     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-9595-8     Document Type: Review

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