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Dichlorvos exposure impedes extraction and amplification of DNA from insects in museum collections

BACKGROUND: The insecticides dichlorvos, paradichlorobenzene and naphthalene have been commonly used to eradicate pest insects from natural history collections. However, it is not known how these chemicals affect the DNA of the specimens in the collections. We thus tested the effect of dichlorvos, p...

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Autores principales: Espeland, Marianne, Irestedt, Martin, Johanson, Kjell Arne, Åkerlund, Monika, Bergh, Jan-Erik, Källersjö, Mari
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-7-2

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