DNA barcoding has transformed the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation by
providing a rapid and effective tool for species identification. The growth of DNA barcodes as …

DNA barcodes have provided a new biological tool for organismal biologists to increase
their understanding of the natural world. Over the last decade four plant DNA barcode …

A DNA barcode is a DNA fragment used to identify species. For land plants, DNA fragments
of plastid genome could be the primary consideration. Unfortunately, most of the plastid …

Land plants underpin a multitude of ecosystem functions, support human livelihoods and
represent a critically important component of terrestrial biodiversity—yet many tens of …

An increasing number of studies using genetic data at the generic and species levels reveal
complex patterns of relationships among populations and species. Incomplete lineage …

Background Jewel orchid is the common name of several orchid species which can be alike
in morphological characteristics, but variable in medicinal properties. At present, two DNA …

The Araucaria Forests in southern Brazil are part of the Atlantic Rainforest, a key hotspot for
global biodiversity. This habitat has experienced extensive losses of vegetation cover due to …

The rapid conversion of Southeast Asian lowland rainforests into monocultures calls for the
development of rapid methods for species identification to support ecological research and …

In May 2014, the Member States of the United Nations adopted Resolution 23/1 on
“strengthening a targeted crime prevention and criminal justice response to combat illicit …

Their relatively slow rates of molecular evolution, as well as frequent exposure to
hybridization and introgression, often make it difficult to discriminate species of vascular …