[Taxacom] Identification by what method?

[Elena Kupriyanova]

How do you *identify* something using gene sequencing??? You compare your sequence to another sequence that was obtained from a tissue of an organism identified HOW? Case closed and dismissed :)

Dr. Elena Kupriyanova
Research Scientist
Marine Invertebrates

Associate Editor, 
Records of the Australian Museum

Australian Museum Research Institute 
6 College Street Sydney NSW 2010 Australia 
t 61 2 9320 6340   m 61402735679   f 61 2 9320 6059
Visit: http://www.australianmuseum.net.au
Like: http://www.facebook.com/australianmuseum
Follow: http://www.twitter.com/austmus
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/austmus 
Inspiring the exploration of nature and cultures



-----Original Message-----
From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Jones
Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015 2:54 PM
To: TAXACOM
Subject: [Taxacom] Identification by what method?

Howdy All,

Recently someone stated to me that the gold standard of biodiversity
identification was gene sequencing.   Which got me to thinking - how often
is gene sequencing used for ID as compared to traditional methods of identification?  My Google-fu is strong and can find zilch out there.  Anyone know of any papers that discuss this?

Thanks in advance,

Tim


--
Timothy M. Jones
Life Science Annex Building, Room A257
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Website - http://www.herbarium.lsu.edu/keys/
_______________________________________________
Taxacom Mailing List
Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
The Taxacom Archive back to 1992 may be searched at: http://taxacom.markmail.org

Celebrating 28 years of Taxacom in 2015.

KIDS FREE
GENERAL ADMISSION TO THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM IS NOW FREE FOR UNDER 16s