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Haseeb Ahmad Khan1, Ibrahim Abdulwahid Arif, Mohammad Shobrak

  • 1Molecular Fingerprinting and Biodiversity Unit, Prince Sultan Research Chair for Environment and Wildlife, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online
|December 15, 2010
PubMed

Keywords:
arabian partridgebarcodingchukar partridgecontrol regioncytochrome oxidasegene sequencingphilby’s rock partridgephylogenetics

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