Ecology in the age of DNA barcoding: The resource, the promise and the challenges ahead

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-232

  Joly, Simon ^a,b   Davies, T Jonathan ^c   Archambault, Annie ^d   Bruneau, Anne ^a   Derry, Alison ^e   Kembel, Steven W ^e   Peres Neto, Pedro ^e   Vamosi, Jana ^f   Wheeler, Terry A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Montreal Botanical Garden   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec Université du Québec a' Rimouski   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptic diversity; DNA barcoding; Ecoinformatics; Ecophylogenetics; Food webs; Intraspecific variation; Macroevolution; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; DNA BARCODING; ECOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOTA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOLOGY;

EID: 84894276271     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12173     Document Type: Note

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