DNA barcoding and taxonomy in diptera: A tale of high intraspecific variability and low identification success

Systematic Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 715-728

  Meier, Rudolf ^a   Shiyang, Kwong ^a   Vaidya, Gaurav ^a   Ng, Peter K L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase I; Genetic distance; Pairwise distance; Species identification

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DIPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33749535839     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150600969864     Document Type: Article

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