How many novel eukaryotic 'kingdoms'? Pitfalls and limitations of environmental DNA surveys

BMC Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Berney, Cédric ^a   Fahrni, José ^a   Pawlowski, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTOPE; CHIMERA; EUKARYOTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; REGNUM; RIVER; RNA SEQUENCE; SWITZERLAND; TAXONOMIC RANK;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3242711100     PISSN: 17417007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-2-13     Document Type: Article

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