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Prospects for fungus identification using CO1 DNA barcodes, with Penicillium as a test case.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Mar 2007
Seifert Keith A, Samson Robert A, Dewaard Jeremy R, Houbraken Jos, Lévesque C André, Moncalvo Jean-Marc, Louis-Seize Gerry, Hebert Paul D N
Abstract excerpt
DNA barcoding systems employ a short, standardized gene region to identify species. A 648-bp segment of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) is the core barcode region for animals, but its utility has not been tested in fungi. This study began with an examination of patterns of sequence divergences in this gene region for 38 fungal taxa with full CO1 sequences. Because these results suggested that CO1 could...
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