Use of ITS2 Region as the Universal DNA Barcode for Plants and Animals

Yao, Hui; Song, Jingyuan; Liu, Chang; Luo, Kun; Han, Jianping; Li, Ying; Pang, Xiaohui; Xu, Hong‐Xi; Zhu, Yingjie; Xiao, Pei‐Gen; Chen, Shilin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013102

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Use of ITS2 Region as the Universal DNA Barcode for Plants and Animals

Published in PLoS ONE • Oct 1, 2010

Authors:

Hui Yao

Jingyuan Song

Chang Liu

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA is regarded as one of the candidate DNA barcodes because it possesses a number of valuable characteristics, such as the availability of conserved regions for designing universal primers, the ease of its amplificatio...

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Biology

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