Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on August 01, 1989

Authors

T D Kocher1, W K Thomas, A Meyer, S V Edwards, S Pääbo, F X Villablanca, A C Wilson

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1: Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

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