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Mito Communication

Conserve primers for sequencing complete ungulate mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene from problematic and decomposed biological samples

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Pages 64-66 | Received 31 Aug 2016, Accepted 10 Oct 2016, Published online: 06 Feb 2017

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