'Barcoding blitz' on Australian moths and butterflies
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 15:30
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 percent of Australia's 10,000 known species -- held at CSIRO's Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra.