Article
Comparative performances of DNA barcoding across insect orders.
BMC bioinformatics - 27 Apr 2010
Virgilio Massimiliano, Backeljau Thierry, Nevado Bruno, De Meyer Marc
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous studies on insect DNA barcoding provide contradictory results and suggest not consistent performances across orders. This work aims at providing a general evaluation of insect DNA barcoding and "mini-barcoding" by performing simulations on a large database of 15,948 DNA barcodes. We compared the proportions of correctly identified queries across a) six insect orders (Coleoptera, Diptera,...
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