FISH‐BOL, the Fish Barcode of Life campaign, is an international research collaboration that
is assembling a standardized reference DNA sequence library for all fishes. Analysis is …

Information from natural history collections (NHCs) about the diversity, taxonomy and
historical distributions of species worldwide is becoming increasingly available over the …

We combined new sequence data for more than 300 muroid rodent species with our
previously published sequences for up to five nuclear and one mitochondrial genes to …

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 …

Many museums and academic institutions maintain first-rate collections of biological
materials, ranging from preserved whole organisms to DNA libraries and cell lines. These …

We define a genetic species as a group of genetically compatible interbreeding natural
populations that is genetically isolated from other such groups. This focus on genetic …

DNA barcoding is a technique for identifying organisms based on a short, standardized
fragment of genomic DNA. The standardized sequence region is called a DNA barcode …

Molecular data have revolutionized systematics and phylogenetic research, and are now
routinely used in systematic laboratories. Most journals publishing molecular phylogenies …

To ensure the effective conservation of biodiversity the distribution of species needs to be
accurately characterized and areas of high species richness located. For many taxa this can …

Fish species identification is traditionally based on external morphological features. Yet, in
many cases fishes and especially their diverse developmental stages are difficult to identify …