DNA barcoding has recently been proposed as a promising tool for the (1) rapid assignment
of unknown samples to described species by non-expert workers and (2) a potential method …

The genus Drosophila is one of the best-studied model systems in modern biology, with
twelve fully sequenced genomes available. In spite of the large number of genetic and …

Large groups of species with well-defined phylogenies are excellent systems for testing
evolutionary hypotheses. In this paper, we describe the creation of a comparative genomic …

The paper briefly reviews the development of the concept of DNA barcoding, a technique
that proposes to identify species by analysis of short DNA sequences. The differences …

Previous phylogenetic analyses of the melanogaster species group have led to conflicting
hypotheses concerning their relationship; therefore the addition of new sequence data is …

The use of DNA as a tool for species identification has become known as" DNA
barcoding"(Floyd et al., 2002; Hebert et al., 2003; Remigio and Hebert, 2003). The basic …

FlyBase () is the primary database of genetic and genomic data for the insect family
Drosophilidae. Historically, Drosophila melanogaster has been the most extensively studied …

Understanding phylogenetic relationships among taxa is key to designing and implementing
comparative analyses. The genus Drosophila, which contains over 1600 species, is one of …

The genus Drosophila has been the subject of intense comparative phylogenomics
characterization to provide insights into genome evolution under diverse biological and …

The newly sequenced genome sequences of 11 Drosophila species provide the first
opportunity to investigate variations in evolutionary rates across a clade of closely related …