Molecular identification of birds: Performance of distance-based DNA barcoding in three genes to delimit parapatric species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Aliabadian, Mansour ^a,b   Kaboli, Mohammad ^c   Nijman, Vincent ^d   Vences, Miguel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; RNA 16S; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; HOLARCTIC; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SAMPLE SIZE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149477880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004119     Document Type: Article

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