Comment on “Taxonomy and the DNA Barcoding Enterprise” by Ebach (2011)
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MARK I. STEVENS, DAVID PORCO, CYRILLE A. D’HAESE & LOUIS DEHARVENG South Australian Museum, North Terrace, GPO Box 234, SA 5000, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Adelaide, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Laboratoire d’Ecologie, EA 1293 ECODIV, FED SCALE, Bâtiment IRESE A, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université de Rouen, Mont Saint Aignan, France. E-mail: [email protected] Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 CNRS, "Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité", 45 rue Buffon, C.P.50, 75005 Paris, France. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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