'Barcoding blitz' on Australian moths and butterflies
Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
In just 10 weeks a team of Canadian researchers has succeeded in 'barcoding' 28,000 moth and butterfly specimens or about 65 per cent of Australias 10,000 known species held at CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection (ANIC) in Canberra.