Can mtDNA barcodes be used to delimit species? A response to pons et al. (2006)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 439-442

  Lohse, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION BIAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349436103     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp039     Document Type: Note

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