ANIMALS - Museum bird DNA 'ready for use' in Naturalis Biodiversity Center

DNA barcoding is used as an effective tool for both the identification of known species and the discovery of new ones. The core idea of DNA barcoding is based on the fact that just a small portion of a single gene already can show that there is less variation between the individuals of one species than between those of several species ...

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