Identifying Voucher Specimens Involving Risk: Shrews From Chornobyl, Ukraine

Specimens may pose a risk to personnel handling them such as the radioactive fauna collected from contaminated areas in Chornobyl. To minimize radiation exposure and to evaluate an inexpensive molecular tool in identifying species of shrew, we analyzed DNA sequences from the cytochrome-b gene. Speci...

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Published in:Journal of mammalogy 2003-02, Vol.84 (1), p.117-122
Main Authors: Wickliffe, J K, Chizhevsky, I, O'Neill, M B, Rodgers, B E, Dunina-Barkovskaya, Y V, Baker, R J
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