Genomic Tools for Species Discovery Inflate Estimates of Species Numbers, U-Michigan Biologists Contend

Monday, January 30, 2017 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

Increasingly popular techniques that infer species boundaries in animals and plants solely by analyzing genetic differences are flawed and can lead to inflated diversity estimates, according to a new study from two University of Michigan evolutionary biologists.

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