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. 2014 Mar 31;21(3):204–231. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2014.03.003

Table 1.

Some landmark articles related to DNA barcoding published onward 2003.

Year Article References
2003 Taxonomy, DNA, and the bar code of life Stoeckle (2003)
Biological identifications through DNA barcodes Hebert et al. (2003)
A plea for DNA taxonomy Tautz et al. (2003)



2004 Now is the time Janzen (2004)
DNA barcoding: promise and pitfalls Moritz and Cicero (2004)
Identification of birds through DNA barcodes Hebert et al. (2004)
Myth of the molecule: DNA barcodes for species cannot replace morphology for identification and classification Will and Rubinoff (2004)



2005 Genome sequencing in microfabricated high density picolitre reactors Margulies et al. (2005)
Toward writing the encyclopedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding Savolainen et al. (2005)
DNA barcodes for Biosecurity: invasive species identification Armstrong and Ball (2005)
DNA barcoding does not compete with taxonomy Gregory (2005)
Will DNA bar codes breathe life into classification? Marshall (2005)
The promise of DNA barcoding for taxonomy Hebert and Gregory (2005)
DNA barcoding is no substitute for taxonomy Ebach and Holdrege (2005)
The perils of DNA barcoding and the need for integrative taxonomy Will et al. (2005)
Emerging technologies in DNA sequencing Metzker (2005)
Critical factors for assembling a high volume of DNA barcodes Hajibabaei et al. (2005)
DNA barcoding: Error rates based on comprehensive sampling Meyer and Paulay (2005)
Nextgeneration DNA sequencing techniques Ansorge (2009)



2006 Who will actually use DNA barcoding and what will it cost? Cameron et al. (2006)
A minimalist barcode can identify a specimen whose DNA is degraded Hajibabaei et al. (2006)



2007 Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies Elias et al. (2007)
A proposal for a standardized protocol to barcode all land plants Chase et al. (2007)



2008 The impact of next-generation sequencing technology on genetics Mardis (2008)
A universal DNA mini-barcode for biodiversity analysis Meusnier et al. (2008)
DNA barcoding: how it complements taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics and population genetics Hajibabaei et al. (2008)
DNA barcodes: genes, genomics, and bioinformatics Kress and Erickson (2008)



2009 Evaluation of next generation sequencing platforms for population targeted sequencing studies Harismendy et al. (2009)
DNA barcoding for ecologists Valentini et al. (2009)



2010 DNA barcoding: a six-question tour to improve users’ awareness about the method Casiraghi et al. (2010)
A survey of sequence alignment algorithms for next-generation sequencing. Briefings in bioinformatics Li and Homer (2010)



2011 Pyrosequencing for mini-barcoding of fresh and old museum specimens Shokralla et al. (2011)
Use of rbcL and trnL-F as a Two-Locus DNA Barcode for Identification of NWEuropean Ferns: An Ecological Perspective De Groot et al. (2011)
Environmental barcoding: a next-generation sequencing approach for biomonitoring applications using river benthos Hajibabaei et al. (2011)
On the future of genomic data Kahn (2011)



2012 An emergent science on the brink of irrelevance: a review of the past 9 years of DNA barcoding Taylor and Harris (2012)
Next-generation sequencing technologies for environmental DNA research Shokralla et al. (2012)
Environmental DNA Taberlet et al. (2012a)
Toward next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding Taberlet et al. (2012c)
The golden age of metasystematics Hajibabaei (2012)
A bloody boon for conservation Callaway (2012)
The future of environmental DNA in ecology Yoccoz (2012)
Tracking earthworm communities from soil DNA Bienert et al. (2012)
Persistence of environmental DNA in freshwater ecosystems Dejean et al. (2011)
New environmental metabarcodes for analyzing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems Epp et al. (2012)
Don’t make a mista(g)ke: is tag switching an overlooked source of error in amplicon pyrosequencing studies? Carlsen et al. (2012)
Bioinformatic challenges for DNA metabarcoding of plants and animals Coissac et al. (2012)
ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation Puillandre et al. (2012)
Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies Taberlet et al. (2012b)



2013 DNA barcoding as a complementary tool for conservation and valorization of forest resources Laiou et al. (2013)
Incorporating trnH-psbA to the core DNA barcodes improves significantly species discrimination within southern African Combretaceae Gere et al. (2013)
A DNA mini-barcode for land plants. Mol Ecol Resour Little (2013)
Toward a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi Kõljalg et al. (2013)
Potential of DNA barcoding for detecting quarantine fungi. Phytopathology Gao and Zhang (2013)
DNA barcoding in plants: evolution and applications of in silico approaches and resources Bhargava and Sharma (2013)
The short ITS2 sequence serves as an efficient taxonomic sequence tag in comparison with the full-length ITS Han et al. (2013)
Assessing DNA barcoding as a tool for species identification and data quality control Shen et al. (2013)
The seven deadly sins of DNA barcoding Collins and Cruickshank (2013)
Use of the potential DNA barcode ITS2 to identify herbal materials Pang et al. (2013)



2014 20 years since the introduction of DNA barcoding: from theory to application Fišer and Buzan (2014)
Ecology in the age of DNA barcoding: the resource, the promise and the challenges ahead Joly et al. (2014)