Barcoding Lepidoptera: Current situation and perspectives on the usefulness of a contentious technique;Barcoding Lepidoptera: Situação atual e perspectivas sobre a utilidade de uma técnica controversa

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 441-451

  Silva Brandão, Karina L ^a   Lyra, Mariana L ^b   Freitas, André V L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cryptic species; DNA barcode; Systematics; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 70349976028     PISSN: 1519566X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-566X2009000400001     Document Type: Article

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