Revealing the Hyperdiverse Mite Fauna of Subarctic Canada through DNA Barcoding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Young, Monica R ^a   Behan Pelletier, Valerie M ^b   Hebert, Paul D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BARCODING; FAUNA; FOREST; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TAXONOMY; TROMBIDIFORMES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MANITOBA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; TROMBIDIFORMES;

EID: 84868311046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048755     Document Type: Article

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