DNA barcoding reveals limited accuracy of identifications based on folk taxonomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  De Boer, Hugo J ^a,b,c   Ouarghidi, Abderrahim ^d,e   Martin, Gary ^e   Abbad, Abdelaziz ^d   Kool, Anneleen ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^e Global Diversity Foundation Dar Ylane   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA BARCODING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENBANK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; MARKER GENE; MARKET; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT IDENTIFICATION; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANT TAXONOMY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PHARMACOPOEIAS AS TOPIC; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

EID: 84897419970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084291     Document Type: Article

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