Barcoding and Border Biosecurity: Identifying Cyprinid Fishes in the Aquarium Trade
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Barcoding and Border Biosecurity: Identifying Cyprinid Fishes in the Aquarium Trade
BACKGROUND Poorly regulated international trade in ornamental fishes poses risks to both biodiversity and economic activity via invasive alien species and exotic pathogens. Border security officials need robust tools to confirm identifications, often requiring hard-to-obtain taxonomic literature and expertise. DNA barcoding offers a potentially attractive tool for quarantine inspection, but has...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028381