Taxonomy, biodiversity and their publics in twenty-first-century DNA barcoding

Public Understanding of Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 497-512

  Ellis, Rebecca ^a   Waterton, Claire ^a   Wynne, Brian ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; POLICY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77954821608     PISSN: 09636625     EISSN: 13616609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963662509335413     Document Type: Article

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