Barcoding's next top model: An evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 457-465

  Collins, Rupert A ^a   Boykin, Laura M ^a   Cruickshank, Robert H ^a   Armstrong, Karen F ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; DNA barcoding; Kimura two parameter; Model selection; Pairwise distances; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856087248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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