From writing to reading the encyclopedia of life

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1702, 2016, Pages

  Hebert, Paul D N ^a   Hollingsworth, Peter M ^b   Hajibabaei, Mehrdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; DNA barcoding; Genomics; Species

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING; EUKARYOTE; GENETICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84982803723     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0321     Document Type: Editorial

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