Lessons from leeches: A call for DNA barcoding in the lab

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 491-501

  Bely, Alexandra E ^a   Weisblat, David A ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA;

DNA; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; LABORATORY METHOD; LEECH; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEECH; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; ANIMALS, WILD; DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; HELOBDELLA; HELOBDELLA EUROPAEA; HELOBDELLA ROBUSTA; HELOBDELLA TRISERIALIS; HIRUDINIDA;

EID: 33750464882     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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