Testing a short nuclear marker for inferring staphylinid beetle diversity in an African tropical rain forest.

The use of DNA based methods for assessing biodiversity has become increasingly common during the last years. Especially in speciose biomes as tropical rain forests and/or in hyperdiverse or understudied taxa they may efficiently complement morphological approaches. The most successful molecular app...

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Main Authors: Birthe Thormann, Michael J Raupach, Thomas Wagner, Johann W Wägele, Marcell K Peters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3069053?pdf=render