A plea for DNA taxonomy

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 70-74

  Tautz, Diethard ^a   Arctander, Peter ^b   Minelli, Alessandro ^c   Thomas, Richard H ^d   Vogler, Alfried P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALIA; NEOPLEA;

EID: 0037297734     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)00041-1     Document Type: Article

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