Comparing and combining distance-based and character-based approaches for barcoding turtles

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 956-967

  Reid, B N ^a   Le, M ^b,c   Mccord, W P ^d   Iverson, J B ^e   Georges, A ^f   Bergmann, T ^g   Amato, G ^c   Desalle, R ^c   Naro Maciel, E ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d East Fishkill Animal Hospital   (United States)

^e EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^h CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Barcoding; Characteristic Attribute Organization System; Species identification; Turtles

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA PRIMERS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

TESTUDINES;

EID: 80054089416     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03032.x     Document Type: Article

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