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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.p.)) segment of the non-coding displacement loop (D-loop) by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and subspecies...
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