Despite taxonomy's 250‐year history, the past 20 years have borne witness to remarkable
advances in technology and techniques, as well as debate. DNA barcoding has generated a …

Statistical species delimitation usually relies on singular data, primarily genetic, for detecting
putative species and individual assignment to putative species. Given the variety of …

Traditional methods of characterizing biodiversity are increasingly being supplemented and
replaced by approaches based on DNA sequencing alone. These approaches commonly …

DNA barcoding and DNA taxonomy have recently been proposed as solutions to the crisis of
taxonomy and received significant attention from scientific journals, grant agencies, natural …

Molecular approaches to species delimitation are increasingly used to ascertain the number
of species in a sample prior to taxonomic, ecological or physiological studies. Although …

Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent
years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for …

Recently, the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences in taxonomy and phylogenetic
inference has become contentious, and two extreme viewpoints have emerged, although, as …

We propose a method for delimiting species based on dominant or codominant multilocus
data using Gaussian clustering with a noise component for outliers. Case studies show that …

DNA barcoding has been successfully implemented in the identification of previously
described species, and in the process has revealed several cryptic species. It has been …

Approximately 600-bp sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been designated as
“DNA barcodes” and have become one of the most contentious and animated issues in the …