Recovery of DNA barcodes from blackfly museum specimens (Diptera: Simuliidae) using primer sets that target a variety of sequence lengths

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 508-518

  Hernandez Triana L M ^a   Prosser, S W ^a   Rodriguez Perez M A ^b   Chaverri, L G ^c   Hebert, P D N ^a   Ryan Gregory, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Blackflies; COI; DNA barcoding; Museum specimens; Simuliidae

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; SIMULIIDAE;

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; INSECT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; INFORMATION CENTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SIMULIIDAE;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSEUMS; PHYLOGENY; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 84898540345     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12208     Document Type: Article

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