Identification of chimpanzee subspecies with DNA from hair and allele-specific probes.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1992.0117

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Identification of chimpanzee subspecies with DNA from hair and allele-specific probes.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Sept 1992

Morin P A, Moore J J, Woodruff D S

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We describe a non-invasive method of determining the subspecies identity of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), based on subspecies-specific sequence differences in the mitochondrial genome. This procedure involves the extraction of DNA from hair, the amplification of a short (410 base pair (b....

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Base Sequence
DNA
Genetic Variation
Hair
Molecular Sequence Data
Oligonucleotide Probes
Pan troglodytes
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Species Specificity

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