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SUBMITTER: Vanhove MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3890687 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vanhove Maarten P M MP Tessens Bart B Schoelinck Charlotte C Jondelius Ulf U Littlewood D Tim J DT Artois Tom T Huyse Tine T
ZooKeys 20131230 365
Some taxonomic groups are less amenable to mitochondrial DNA barcoding than others. Due to the paucity of molecular information of understudied groups and the huge molecular diversity within flatworms, primer design has been hampered. Indeed, all attempts to develop universal flatworm-specific COI markers have failed so far. We demonstrate how high molecular variability and contamination problems limit the possibilities for barcoding using standard COI-based protocols in flatworms. As a conseque ...[more]