DNA barcode data accurately identify higher taxa

DNA barcode data accurately identify higher taxa 1 2 Jonathan A. Coddington * 1 , Ingi Agnarsson 1,5 , Ren-Chung Cheng 2 , Klemen Candek 2 , Amy 3 Driskell 1 , Holger Frick 3 , Matjaž Gregoric 2 , Rok Kostanjsek 4 , Christian Kropf 3 , Matthew 4 Kweskin 1 , Tjasa Lokovsek 2 , Miha Pipan 2,6 , Nina Vidergar 2 , Matjaž Kuntner * 1,2 5 6 1 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA 7 2 EZ Lab, Institute of Biology at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and 8 Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia 9 3 Department of Invertebrates, Natural History Museum Bern, Switzerland 10 4 Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 11 5 Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA 12 6 Currently at: Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, 13 United Kingdom 14 15 *Authors for correspondence 16 Jonathan A. Coddington, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA, coddington@si.edu 18 and 19 Matjaž Kuntner, Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Novi trg 2, P.O. 20 Box 306, SI-1001, Ljubljana, Slovenia, kuntner@gmail.com 21 22 Funding 23 This work was made possible by a Swiss Contribution to the enlarged EU grant to M. 24 Kuntner and C. Kropf and the Laboratories of Analytical Biology, National Museum of 25 Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 26 27