Yen-Jean Chen

Construction of a COI DNA barcode reference library for non-volant terrestrial mammals of Taiwan, with notes on the effects of nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (numts) on molecular identification

The utility of COI barcodes for identifying most non-volant terrestrial mammals in Taiwan, and the importance of integrating specimen traceability, functional sequence checks, comparisons with public data, distance-based analyses, and cautious interpretation of BIN results in mammalian DNA barcoding research are emphas...