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SUBMITTER: Janzen DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1609230 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Janzen Daniel H DH Hajibabaei Mehrdad M Burns John M JM Hallwachs Winnie W Remigio Ed E Hebert Paul D N PD
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20051001 1462
By facilitating bioliteracy, DNA barcoding has the potential to improve the way the world relates to wild biodiversity. Here we describe the early stages of the use of cox1 barcoding to supplement and strengthen the taxonomic platform underpinning the inventory of thousands of sympatric species of caterpillars in tropical dry forest, cloud forest and rain forest in northwestern Costa Rica. The results show that barcoding a biologically complex biota unambiguously distinguishes among 97% of more ...[more]