The Use of Mean Instead of Smallest Interspecific Distances Exaggerates the Size of the “Barcoding Gap” and Leads to Misidentification
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- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Systematic Biology
- Vol. 57 (5) , 809-813
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802406343
Abstract
DNA barcoding is one of the best funded and most visible large-scale initiatives in systematic biology and has generated both much interest and controversy. DNAKeywords
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