Advertisement
Survey Series
Institutions
For Advertisers
|
|
||||
|
Barcoding put to the test
The Scientist 2004, 18(20):30
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
Two studies appear to confirm DNA barcoding as a powerful taxonomic tool. Paul Hebert and colleagues at the University of Guelph, Ontario, analyzed the single gene for cytochrome c oxidase I to distinguish 260 known North American bird species. The so-called DNA barcodes identified four new cryptic species as well.[1]
|
|
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
|
