County, Los Angeles, CA 90007. specific (ie, phylogenetic) hypotheses, are the products of
nondeductive reasoning. One of the central tenets of nondeductive reasoning is that …

Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation of all biology.
Unfortunately, over the past few decades, taxonomy is being comple tely overshadowed by …

It is likely that the mere use of the word barcode is responsible for much of the appeal
surrounding DNA barcoding, after all DNA-based identification methods (eg, DeSalle and …

DNA barcoding has become a well-accepted and popular tool for the identification of
species and the detection of cryptic taxonomic diversity. As such, it has a tremendous …

MALTE C. EBACH AND CRAIG HOLDREGE ecologist and environmental consultant more
easily than we can imagine its value to taxonomy. Barcoding could indeed be valuable in …

The capacity to identify an unknown organism using the DNA sequence from a single gene
has many applications. These include the development of biodiversity inventories (Janzen et …

Despite 250 years of work in systematics, the majority of species remains to be identified.
Rising extinction rates and the need for increased biological monitoring lend urgency to this …

LONDON—The sometimes-dusty world of taxonomy and biological collections held a revival
meeting here last week. In the imposing surroundings of the Natural History Museum, on …

Responding to a decade of scientific and political discussion during the 1980s, the United
States, under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), initiated a series …

At the First International Barcoding Conference, held at the Natural History Museum in
London in February 2005, heads of research institutes discussed plans to use museums …