This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
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Barcoding |
A svecific piece of DNA (usually Dart of the mitochondrial cytochrome coxidase sub unit l gene) is sequenced many times from different species. There are sufficient interspecies differences in this gene, for the sequence of DNA to act as a unique code for a species and therefore be used as a taxonomic aid. |