Species discovery versus species identification in DNA barcoding efforts: Response to Rubinoff

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1545-1547

  DeSalle, Rob ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RESEARCH; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; RESEARCH;

EID: 33748949249     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00543.x     Document Type: Note

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