Journal article
A new way to contemplate Darwin's tangled bank: how DNA barcodes are reconnecting biodiversity science and biomonitoring
Abstract
Encompassing the breadth of biodiversity in biomonitoring programmes has been frustrated by an inability to simultaneously identify large numbers of species accurately and in a timely fashion. Biomonitoring infers the state of an ecosystem from samples collected and identified using the best available taxonomic knowledge. The advent of DNA barcoding has now given way to the extraction of bulk DNA from mixed samples of organisms in environmental …
Authors
Hajibabaei M; Baird DJ; Fahner NA; Beiko R; Golding GB
Journal
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1702,
Publisher
The Royal Society
Publication Date
September 5, 2016
DOI
10.1098/rstb.2015.0330
ISSN
0962-8436