How Effective Are DNA Barcodes in the Identification of African Rainforest Trees?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Parmentier, Ingrid ^a   Duminil, Jérôme ^a,b   Kuzmina, Maria ^c   Philippe, Morgane ^a   Thomas, Duncan W ^d   Kenfack, David ^e   Chuyong, George B ^f   Cruaud, Corinne ^g   Hardy, Olivier J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Regional Office for Central Africa   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^g DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN MATK; PROTEIN RBCL; PSBA PROTEIN; TRNH PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLADISTICS; DNA BARCODING; DNA MARKER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; RAIN FOREST; RELIABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

CAMEROON; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GENES, PLANT; PLASTIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84875667160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054921     Document Type: Article

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