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DNA barcoding and development of species-specific markers for the identification of tea mosquito bugs (Miridae: Heteroptera) in India.
Environmental entomology - 1 Oct 2012
Rebijith K B, Asokan R, Kumar N K Krishna, Srikumar K K, Ramamurthy V V, Bhat P Shivarama
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Rapid, accurate, and timely identification of insects as a group is important and challenging worldwide, as they outnumber all other animals in number and diversity. DNA barcoding is a method for the identification of species in a wide range of animal taxa, which uses the 5' region of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase-I (CO-I). Yet another easy, accurate, and economical method of species discrimination is...
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