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DNA barcoding of recently diverged species: relative performance of matching methods.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
van Velzen Robin, Weitschek Emanuel, Felici Giovanni, Bakker Freek T
Abstract excerpt
Recently diverged species are challenging for identification, yet they are frequently of special interest scientifically as well as from a regulatory perspective. DNA barcoding has proven instrumental in species identification, especially in insects and vertebrates, but for the identification of recently diverged species it has been reported to be problematic in some cases. Problems are mostly due to incomplete...
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