Will Kipling W, Rubinoff Daniel
University of California, Department Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Division of Insect Biology, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
University of Hawaii, Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, 3050 Maile Way, 310 Gilmore Hall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Cladistics. 2004 Feb;20(1):47-55. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.00008.x.
So-called DNA barcodes have recently been proposed to answer the problem of specimen identification and to quantify global biodiversity. We show that this proposition is wanting in terms of rationale, methodology and interpretation of results. In addition to falling short of all its stated goals, the method abandons the benefits of morphological studies in favor of a limited molecular identification system that would ultimately impede our understanding of biodiversity.
所谓的DNA条形码最近被提出来以解决标本鉴定问题并量化全球生物多样性。我们表明，这一主张在基本原理、方法和结果解释方面都存在欠缺。除了未能实现其所有既定目标外，该方法摒弃了形态学研究的优势，转而支持一个有限的分子鉴定系统，这最终将阻碍我们对生物多样性的理解。
