ITS1: A DNA barcode better than ITS2 in eukaryotes?

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 573-586

  Wang, Xin Cun ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Huang, Liang ^a   Bengtsson Palme, Johan ^b   Chen, Haimei ^a   Zhang, Jian Hui ^a   Cai, Dayong ^a   Li, Jian Qin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

DNA barcode; Internal transcribed spacer 1; Internal transcribed spacer 2; Meta analysis; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BRYOPHYTA; EUDICOTYLEDONS; EUKARYOTA; FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEXAPODA; LILIOPSIDA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; PISCES; PROTISTA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EUKARYOTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84926475066     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12325     Document Type: Article

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