Authentication of food or food supplements with medicinal values is important to avoid
adverse toxic effects, provide consumer rights, as well as for certification purpose …

More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

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 …

The detection of species substitution has become an important topic within the food industry
and there is a growing need for rapid, reliable, and reproducible tests to verify species in …

'Biodiversity'means the variety of life and it can be studied at different levels (genetic,
species, ecosystem) and scales (spatial and temporal). Last decades showed that marine …

Background International fish trade reached an import value of 62.8 billion Euro in 2006, of
which 44.6% are covered by the European Union. Species identification is a key problem …

There is an increasing requirement for traceability of fish and fish products, both for
consumer protection and for regulatory enforcement, in particular with respect to illegal …

Background The use of DNA barcodes for the identification of described species is one of
the least controversial and most promising applications of barcoding. There is no …

Species diversity of the metazoan holozooplankton assemblage of the Sargasso Sea,
Northwest Atlantic Ocean, was examined through coordinated morphological taxonomic …

Increased worldwide trade and processing of seafood has increased the potential for
species substitution on the commercial market. To detect and prevent species substitution …