A Bucklin, D Steinke… - Annual review of marine …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …
To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …
EHK Wong, RH Hanner - Food Research International, 2008 - Elsevier
Seafood authentication and food safety concerns are a growing issue in today's global marketplace, although traditional morphology-based identification keys and existing …
DNA barcoding projects require high‐throughput generation of sequence data to assemble the comprehensive reference databases that are required to perform large‐scale …
Background Decapods are the most recognizable of all crustaceans and comprise a dominant group of benthic invertebrates of the continental shelf and slope, including many …
Background Trade in ornamental fishes represents, by far, the largest route for the importation of exotic vertebrates. There is growing pressure to regulate this trade with the …
J Zhang, R Hanner - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background DNA barcoding is one means of establishing a rapid, accurate, and cost- effective system for the identification of species. It involves the use of short, standard gene …
Most surveillance programmes for marine invasive species (MIS) require considerable taxonomic expertise, are laborious, and are unable to identify species at larval or juvenile …
AD Rogers - … transactions of the royal society B …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Antarctic biota is highly endemic, and the diversity and abundance of taxonomic groups differ from elsewhere in the world. Such characteristics have resulted from evolution in …