Barcode of life

Scientific American

Volumn 299, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 82-88

  Stoeckle, Mark Y ^a,b,c   Hebert, Paul D N ^d,e  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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EID: 54949123883     PISSN: 00368733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1008-82     Document Type: Short Survey

References (4)

1. The paper that launched a thousand barcoders: Biological Identifications through DNA Barcodes. Paul D. N. Hebert, Alina Cywinska, Shelley L. Ball and Jeremy R. deWaard in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Vol. 270, No. 1512, pages 313-321; February 7, 2003. Available at http://journals.royalsociety.org
2. The Barcode of Life Data systems is a workbench for researchers, with public links to published projects, an "identification engine," a taxonomy browser, Google maps, and more: www.barcodinglife.org
3. Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), an international initiative devoted to developing DNA barcodes as a global standard for the identification of biological species, is based at the National Museum of Natural History: www.barcoding.si.edu
4. Mark Y. Stoeckle's DNA Barcode Blog is a weekly illustrated scientific blog about short DNA sequences for species identification and discovery: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog