Taxonomy underpins all biological research, with implications for many basic scientific and
applied fields. Insights into the stability or change of animal and plant guilds require species …

Fungal research is experiencing a new wave of methodological improvements that most
probably will boost mycology as profoundly as molecular phylogeny has done during the …

The crisis of declining biodiversity 1 exceeds our current ability to monitor changes in
ecosystems. Rapid terrestrial biomonitoring approaches are essential to quantify the causes …

The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a species native to the Americas and has
spread to many countries in Africa and Asia in recent years. Proactive actions for potential …

Sequencing ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes is currently the method of choice for phylogenetic
reconstruction, nucleic acid based detection and quantification of microbial diversity. The …

Two hundred and seven species of fish, mostly Australian marine fish, were sequenced
(barcoded) for a 655 bp region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene …

DNA 条形码技术是利用标准的, 具有足够变异的, 易扩增且相对较短的DNA
片段在物种内的特异性和种间的多样性而创建的一种新的生物身份识别系统 …

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 …

Efforts to describe all the species on earth will fail unless biologists begin to use DNA
sequences as biological" barcodes", says Paul Hebert, professor of zoology at the University …

Not only is the number of described species a very small proportion of the estimated extant
number of taxa, but it also appears that all concepts of the extent and boundaries of 'species' …