DNA barcodes for 1/1000 of the animal kingdom.
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SUBMITTER: Hebert PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2880045 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
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DNA barcodes for 1/1000 of the animal kingdom.
Hebert Paul D N PD Dewaard Jeremy R JR Landry Jean-François JF
Biology letters 20091216 3
This study reports DNA barcodes for more than 1300 Lepidoptera species from the eastern half of North America, establishing that 99.3 per cent of these species possess diagnostic barcode sequences. Intraspecific divergences averaged just 0.43 per cent among this assemblage, but most values were lower. The mean was elevated by deep barcode divergences (greater than 2%) in 5.1 per cent of the species, often involving the sympatric occurrence of two barcode clusters. A few of these cases have been ...[more]
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