DNA barcoding: A six-question tour to improve users' awareness about the method

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 440-453

  Casiraghi, Maurizio ^a   Labra, Massimo ^a   Ferri, Emanuele ^b   Galimberti, Andrea ^a   de Mattia, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; DNA taxonomy; Molecular identification; Species identification

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AWARENESS; DNA; HUMANS;

EID: 77955014461     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbq003     Document Type: Article

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