Moreover, even great efforts might not guarantee sufficiently complete sampling of fresh material in a short period of time. This is particularly true for birds and mammals, for which collecting fresh (voucher) material is often very difficult to (nearly) impossible due to the special animal welfare and conservation regulations that apply to vertebrates in general, and birds and mammals in particular. Historical museum collections represent a potentially invaluable source for the DNA-barcoding of many taxa. However, reliable species assignment requires the availability of a comprehensive DNA barcode reference library, and hence numerous initiatives aim at generating such barcode databases for particular taxa or geographic regions. DNA-barcoding is a rapidly developing method for efficiently identifying samples to species level by means of short standard DNA sequences.
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