DNA Barcoding

CU-Boulder team identifies DNA 'barcodes' to help track illegal trading of wildlife products

Identifying such DNA barcodes can help wildlife officials crack down on illegal bushmeat trafficking since many animal species are in sharp decline from…

UBC researchers help push for standard DNA barcodes for plants

Barcodes based on portions of DNA – the taxonomical equivalent to UPC barcodes on products – have already emerged as a viable solution for uniquely identifying…

Ecologists identify birds struck in Hudson River crash as migratory Canada geese

Using forensic data from feather remains, scientists have identified the birds that caused the Jan. 15 airline crash into the Hudson River as migratory Canada…

DNA barcoding of mosquito species deployed in bid to end elephantiasis

New biotechnologies that allow scientists to quickly and accurately distinguish species based on a simple DNA analysis are being creatively deployed for the…

Diversity Among Parasitic Wasps Is Even Greater Than Suspected

By combining ecological and genetic data with the painstaking detective work of taxonomy, the researchers have dramatically increased – nearly doubling – the…

DNA barcoding in danger of 'ringing up' wrong species

But the approach as currently practiced churns out some results as inaccurately as a supermarket checker scanning an apple and ringing it up as an orange,…

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