Looking for quagga mussel samples from the Don, Volga and Dnieper rivers.

01 February 2013 0 2K Report

In order to finalize my phylogeographic study of quagga mussel, I am looking for samples from the following rivers : Don, Volga and Dnieper. Can anyone help me?

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