Integrating DNA barcode data and taxonomic practice: Determination, discovery, and description

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-147

  Goldstein, Paul Z ^a   DeSalle, Rob ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; DNA taxonomy; Species diagnosis; Taxonomic impediment

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78651457490     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000036     Document Type: Article

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