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DNA Fingerprinting of Pearls to Determine Their Origins

We report the first successful extraction of oyster DNA from a pearl and use it to identify the source oyster species for the three major pearl-producing oyster species Pinctada margaritifera, P. maxima and P. radiata. Both mitochondrial and nuclear gene fragments could be PCR-amplified and sequence...

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Autores principales: Meyer, Joana B., Cartier, Laurent E., Pinto-Figueroa, Eric A., Krzemnicki, Michael S., Hänni, Henry A., McDonald, Bruce A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075606