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SUBMITTER: Seifert KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1805696 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seifert Keith A KA Samson Robert A RA Dewaard Jeremy R JR Houbraken Jos J Lévesque C André CA Moncalvo Jean-Marc JM Louis-Seize Gerry G Hebert Paul D N PD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070228 10
DNA barcoding systems employ a short, standardized gene region to identify species. A 648-bp segment of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (CO1) is the core barcode region for animals, but its utility has not been tested in fungi. This study began with an examination of patterns of sequence divergences in this gene region for 38 fungal taxa with full CO1 sequences. Because these results suggested that CO1 could be effective in species recognition, we designed primers for a 545-bp fragment of C ...[more]