Barcoding success as a function of phylogenetic relatedness in <it>Viburnum</it>, a clade of woody angiosperms

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The chloroplast genes <it>mat</it>K and <it>rbc</it>L have been proposed as a “core” DNA barcode for identifying plant species. Published estimates of successful species identification using these loci (70-80%...

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Main Authors: Clement Wendy L, Donoghue Michael J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/73