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20 years since the introduction of DNA barcoding: from theory to application.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Feb 2014
Fišer Pečnikar Živa, Buzan Elena V
Abstract excerpt
Traditionally, taxonomic identification has relied upon morphological characters. In the last two decades, molecular tools based on DNA sequences of short standardised gene fragments, termed DNA barcodes, have been developed for species discrimination. The most common DNA barcode used in animals is a fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase (COI) mitochondrial gene, while for plants, two chloroplast gene fragments...
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