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Identifying Canadian freshwater fishes through DNA barcodes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2008
Hubert Nicolas, Hanner Robert, Holm Erling, Mandrak Nicholas E, Taylor Eric, Burridge Mary, Watkinson Douglas, Dumont Pierre, Curry Allen, Bentzen Paul, Zhang Junbin, April Julien, Bernatchez Louis
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: DNA barcoding aims to provide an efficient method for species-level identifications using an array of species specific molecular tags derived from the 5' region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene. The efficiency of the method hinges on the degree of sequence divergence among species and species-level identifications are relatively straightforward when the average genetic distance...
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