This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

The use of DNA barcodes, which are short gene sequences taken from a standardized
portion of the genome and used to identify species, is entering a new phase of application …

Background The plant working group of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life
recommended the two-locus combination of rbcL+ matK as the plant barcode, yet the …

Despite the broad benefits that DNA barcoding can bring to a diverse range of biological
disciplines, a number of shortcomings still exist in terms of the experimental design of …

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 …

Recent simulation studies examining the performance of Bayesian species delimitation as
implemented in the bpp program have suggested that bpp may detect population splits but …

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and
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Over the last three decades, mitochondrial DNA has been the most popular marker of
molecular diversity, for a combination of technical ease‐of‐use considerations, and …

Cataloging the very large number of undescribed species of insects could be greatly
accelerated by automated DNA based approaches, but procedures for large-scale species …

DNA barcoding has attracted attention with promises to aid in species identification and
discovery; however, few well-sampled datasets are available to test its performance. We …