Food safety and quality are nowadays a major concern. Any case of food alteration,
especially when reported by the media, has a great impact on public opinion. There is an …

FISH‐BOL, the Fish Barcode of Life campaign, is an international research collaboration that
is assembling a standardized reference DNA sequence library for all fishes. Analysis is …

Taxonomic identification of biological materials can be achieved through DNA barcoding,
where an unknown “barcode” sequence is compared to a reference database. In many …

Continuous cell lines consist of cultured cells derived from a specific donor and tissue of
origin that have acquired the ability to proliferate indefinitely. These cell lines are well …

Background DNA barcoding aims to provide an efficient method for species-level
identifications using an array of species specific molecular tags derived from the 5′ region …

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 …

Species substitution is a form of seafood fraud for the purpose of economic gain. DNA
barcoding utilizes species-specific DNA sequence information for specimen identification …

Seafood authentication and food safety concerns are a growing issue in today's global
marketplace, although traditional morphology-based identification keys and existing …

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 …

Background Building reference libraries of DNA barcodes is relatively straightforward when
specifically designed primers are available to amplify the COI-5P region from a relatively …