Tag Archives: species delimitation

What next for DNA barcoding?

Posted on 25 Jul, 2019 by Alex Twyford

I’m a late adopter of DNA barcoding. As a botanist it has often felt that DNA barcoding wasn’t really for me. Unlike in animals, where the mitochondrial gene CO1 often tracks species boundaries, in plants, there is rarely an exact … Continue reading →

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False detection of "true" species under the multi-species coalescent model

Posted on 7 Feb, 2017 by Katie Everson

The multi-species coalescent model (MSCM) is the biggest name in the game (if the game is genetic species delimitation). But a new paper from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences asks: is the MSCM really doing what we think it’s doing? Some … Continue reading →

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