DNA barcoding and taxonomy: Dark taxa and dark texts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1702, 2016, Pages

  Page, Roderic D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark taxa; Dark texts; Digitization; DNA barcoding; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATABASE; DIGITIZATION; DNA; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH WORK; TAXONOMY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84982860144     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0334     Document Type: Article

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