Multiple variants of the mitochondrial COI DNA barcode region are prevalent in North European sawflies
Marko Prous, Santtu Urpilainen, Paul D. N. Hebert, Evgeny Zakharov, Niina Kiljunen, Marko Mutanen
The paper identifies multiple functional COI barcode variants in North European sawflies using high-throughput sequencing, challenging the one-barcode-per-specimen assumption in DNA barcoding.
Systematic Entomology · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology