A critique of current methods in nematode taxonomy

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 312-323

  Abebe, Eyualem ^a   Mekete, Tesfamariam ^b   Thomas, William K ^c  

^a ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic and molecular methods; Nematode biodiversity; Species delimitation; Taxonomic methods; Traditional taxonomy

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; METAGENOMICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT AND FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

NEMATODA;

EID: 79251481543     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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