Historical butterfly specimens, over a century old, at London's Natural History Museum inform the classification of rare species
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0305825
Article Title: DNA barcodes from over-a-century-old type specimens shed light on the taxonomy of a group of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae)
Author Countries: Austria, India, Canada, UK, Finland
Funding: VT was supported by SYNTHESYS Call 4 project under the current European Commission’s FPVII European-funded Integrating Activities funding scheme (312253). Morphometry work was funded by a CSIR-UGC Research Fellowship to D.N.B., and a Ramanujan Fellowship (Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) and a research grant from NCBS to K.K. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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DNA barcodes from over-a-century-old type specimens shed light on the taxonomy of a group of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae)
17-Jul-2024
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.