Probing planetary biodiversity with DNA barcodes: The Noctuoidea of North America.

This study reports the assembly of a DNA barcode reference library for species in the lepidopteran superfamily Noctuoidea from Canada and the USA. Based on the analysis of 69,378 specimens, the library provides coverage for 97.3% of the noctuoid fauna (3565 of 3664 species). In addition to verifying...

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Main Authors: Reza Zahiri, J Donald Lafontaine, B Christian Schmidt, Jeremy R deWaard, Evgeny V Zakharov, Paul D N Hebert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5453547?pdf=render