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Barcoding success as a function of phylogenetic relatedness in Viburnum, a clade of woody angiosperms.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 May 2012
Clement Wendy L, Donoghue Michael J
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BACKGROUND: The chloroplast genes matK and rbcL have been proposed as a "core" DNA barcode for identifying plant species. Published estimates of successful species identification using these loci (70-80%) may be inflated because they may have involved comparisons among distantly related species within target genera. To assess the ability of the proposed two-locus barcode to discriminate closely related species,...
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