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Culicidae: will return all the mosquitoes in the database
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Aves Peru: will return all the birds collected in Peru. Using two terms under a different context (taxonomic and geographic), returns records that only match both terms.
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Peter Huemer, Marko Mutanen, Kristina M. Sefc, Paul D. N. Hebert Testing DNA Barcode Performance in 1000 Species of European Lepidoptera: Large Geographic Distances Have Small Genetic Impacts PLoS ONE 2014-12-26;9(12):e115774 (PDF)
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TREE RECONSTRUCTION OF BIN & NEAREST NEIGHBOR:
HAPLOTYPE NETWORK:
Color & Label Scheme:
COLLECTION LOCATION:
Countries:
United States - [7]
Canada - [18]
Norway - [6]
United Kingdom - [1]
Germany - [10]
Finland - [3]
Austria - [7]
Netherlands - [1]
DATA MANAGERS:
Public Data:
Private Data:
Jeremy deWaard - [4] CBG Project Management Team - [17] Jean-Francois Landry - [1] Arild Johnsen - [4] Paul D.N. Hebert - [1] Axel Hausmann - [4] Marko Mutanen - [3] Marek L Borowiec - [1] Zhaofu Yang - [2] Peter Huemer - [5] Andreas Segerer - [5] Matthias Nuss - [1] Camiel Doorenweerd - [1] Torbjorn Ekrem - [1] Wolfgang Stark - [1] Brigitte Gottsberger - [1]
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes - [3]
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - [17]
Colorado State University, C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity - [1]
Landesmuseum Kaernten - [1]
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural History - [1]
Natural History Museum, London - [1]
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - [1]
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research - [1]
Research Collection of Alfred Haslberger - [1]
Research Collection of Brian Scholtens - [1]
Research Collection of Daniel Handfield - [1]
Research Collection of Hartmut Wegner - [1]
Research Collection of Peter Lichtmannecker - [1]
Research Collection of Richard Heindel - [1]
Research Collection of Theo Gruenewald - [2]
Research Collection of Wolfgang Stark - [1]
SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen - [3]
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Karlsruhe - [1]
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum - [4]
University of Guelph - [2]
University of Oslo, Natural History Museum - [4]
University of Oulu, Zoological Museum - [3]
University of Vienna, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Research - [1]
Sequencing Centers:
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics - [49] GATC Biotech AG - [1] Naturalis Biodiversity Center - [1] University of Vienna, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Research - [1] Unknown - [1]
Photography:
Aarvik, Leif - [1] Brandon Laforest - [2] CBG Photography Group - [13] Christian Wieser - [1] Erik Bostrom - [1] Even Sannes Riiser - [1] G. Rotheneder - [1] Hilary Lyttle - [1] Jaclyn McCormick - [5] Jean-Francois Landry - [1] Kai Berggren - [1] Libby Avis - [3] Michaela Grote - [1] Naturalis DNA barcoding facility - [1] Peter Huemer - [1] Richard Wilson - [1] Trude Magnussen - [1] ZSM Hymenoptera Photography Group - [2] ZSM Photography Team - [3] Zhaofu Yang - [2]
Collectors:
A. W. Thomas - [1] A.W.Thomas - [1] Aarvik - [2] Alfred Haslberger - [1] Andreas Werno - [1] BIO Collections - [1] BIObus 2010 - [1] Brian G. Scholtens - [2] C. Doorenweerd - [1] Carl Fredrik - [1] Ch. - [1] Daniel Handfield - [1] Deutsch H. - [1] E.Munroe - [1] Franz Theimer - [1] Hartmut Wegner - [1] Huemer P. - [3] I.Munroe - [1] J.D.Lafontaine - [1] J.E.Cossey - [2] J.R.Straka - [2] Jadranka Rota - [1] Jean-Francois Landry - [1] Kai Berggren - [1] Konrad Fiedler - [1] L.Avis - [3] Leif - [2] Leif Aarvik - [1] Luehr - [1] Marko Mutanen - [3] N.W.Jeffery - [2] Panu Vaelimaeki - [2] Paul Hebert - [4] Peter Lichtmannecker - [1] R. Sutter - [1] R.Avis - [3] Richard Heindel - [1] Richard Wilson - [2] Ryan Gregory - [2] S.Johnson - [1] SMP 75 - [1] Sverre Kobro - [1] T. Gruenewald - [2] V. Gayk - [1] Wieser - [1] lgt. W.Stark - [1]
Specimen Identification:
Andreas Segerer - [5] Anthony W. Thomas - [1] Axel Hausmann - [3] Brian G. Scholtens - [3] Camiel Doorenweerd - [1] Christian Wieser - [1] Daniel Handfield - [1] Evgeny V. Zakharov - [1] Hartmut Wegner - [1] Jean-Francois Landry - [1] Kai Berggren - [2] Kate Perez - [1] Konrad Fiedler - [1] Leif Aarvik - [3] Libby Avis - [3] Marko Mutanen - [3] Matthias Nuss - [1] Paul D.N. Hebert - [4] Paul Opler - [1] Peter Huemer - [4] Richard L. Wilson - [2] Sverre Kobro - [1] Tony Thomas - [1] Wolfgang Stark - [1]