[obol] DNA Barcoding

[Cindy Ashy]

This is really cool stuff.

They have more than 600 bird spp barcoded (over
300,000 spp in total) and predict in a few years to
have handheld species ID devices. They are basically
using birds to ground truth the system.

Press Release:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/ru-nbb021207.php

Don't miss the bird "lump" chart:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/3185.php?from=90533

99.8% DNA similarity in 8 "species" of white-headed
larids....even more similar than between American Crow
and Northwestern Crow. Blue-winged Teal and Cinnamon
Teal are identical.
If you want way more detail:

http://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/blog/

Cindy Ashy


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