Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Vol. 360 No. 1462

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 2005: 360 (1805-1980)

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Towards writing the encyclopedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding
Vincent Savolainen, Robyn S Cowan, Alfried P Vogler, George K Roderick, and Richard Lane
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005:1811; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1730

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DNA barcodes for biosecurity: invasive species identification
K.F Armstrong and S.L Ball
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1813-1823; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1713

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DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar
M. Alex Smith, Brian L Fisher, and Paul D.N Hebert
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1825-1834; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1714

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Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding
Daniel H Janzen, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, John M Burns, Winnie Hallwachs, Ed Remigio, and Paul D.N Hebert
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1835-1845; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1715

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DNA barcoding Australia's fish species
Robert D Ward, Tyler S Zemlak, Bronwyn H Innes, Peter R Last, andPaul D.N Hebert
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1847-1857; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1716

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Deciphering amphibian diversity through DNA barcoding: chances and challenges
Miguel Vences, Meike Thomas, Ronald M Bonett, and David R Vieites
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1859-1868; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1717

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The problems and promise of DNA barcodes for species diagnosis of primate biomaterials
Joseph G Lorenz, Whitney E Jackson, Jeanne C Beck, and Robert Hanner
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1869-1877; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1718

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Applying DNA barcoding to red macroalgae: a preliminary appraisal holds promise for future applications
Gary W Saunders
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1879-1888; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1719

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Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long-term goals
Mark W Chase, Nicolas Salamin, Mike Wilkinson, James M Dunwell, Rao Prasad Kesanakurthi, Nadia Haidar, and Vincent Savolainen
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1889-1895; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1720

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Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding
R.C Summerbell, C.A Lévesque, K.A Seifert, M Bovers, J.W Fell, M.R Diaz, T Boekhout, G.S de Hoog, J Stalpers, and P.W Crous
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1897-1903;doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1721

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The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding
Rob DeSalle, Mary G Egan, and Mark Siddall
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1905-1916; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1722

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Reverse taxonomy: an approach towards determining the diversity of meiobenthic organisms based on ribosomal RNA signature sequences
Melanie Markmann and Diethard Tautz
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1917-1924; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1723

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DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using mitochondrial and nuclear markers
Michael T Monaghan, Michael Balke, T. Ryan Gregory, and Alfried P Vogler
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1925-1933; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1724

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Defining operational taxonomic units using DNA barcode data
Mark Blaxter, Jenna Mann, Tom Chapman, Fran Thomas, Claire Whitton, Robin Floyd, and Eyualem Abebe 
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1935-1943; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1725

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An integrated approach to fast and informative morphological vouchering of nematodes for applications in molecular barcoding
Paul De Ley, Irma Tandingan De Ley, Krystalynne Morris, Eyualem Abebe, Manuel Mundo-Ocampo, Melissa Yoder, Joseph Heras, Dora Waumann, Axayácatl Rocha-Olivares, A.H Jay Burr, James G Baldwin, andW. Kelley Thomas
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1945-1958; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1726

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Critical factors for assembling a high volume of DNA barcodes
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Jeremy R deWaard, Natalia V Ivanova, Sujeevan Ratnasingham Robert T Dooh, Stephanie L Kirk, Paula M Mackie, and Paul D.N Hebert
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1959-1967; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1727

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A likelihood ratio test for species membership based on DNA sequence data
Mikhail V Matz and Rasmus Nielsen
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360:1969-1974; doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1728

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TaxI: a software tool for DNA barcoding using distance methods
Dirk Steinke, Miguel Vences, Walter Salzburger, and Axel Meyer
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B October 29, 2005 360 1975-1980 doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1729

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