The Real maccoyii: Identifying Tuna Sushi with DNA Barcodes – Contrasting Characteristic Attributes and Genetic Distances

Jacob H. Lowenstein; George Amato; Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007866

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The Real maccoyii: Identifying Tuna Sushi with DNA Barcodes – Contrasting Characteristic Attributes and Genetic Distances

Jacob H. Lowenstein ,

* E-mail: jlowenstein@amnh.org (JHL); koloko@amnh.org (SOK)

Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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George Amato,

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

* E-mail: jlowenstein@amnh.org (JHL); koloko@amnh.org (SOK)

Affiliation Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
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The Real maccoyii: Identifying Tuna Sushi with DNA Barcodes – Contrasting Characteristic Attributes and Genetic Distances

Jacob H. Lowenstein,
George Amato,
Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis

Published: November 18, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007866

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A nice advance on the barcoding approach to forensics

Posted by jwares on 23 Nov 2009 at 01:53 GMT

I appreciated this article: you dealt with the pragmatic concerns as well as those that are of interest to basic researchers, and the results are clearly of importance. Nice work.

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A nice advance on the barcoding approach to forensics

Posted by jwares on 23 Nov 2009 at 01:53 GMT