Applying DNA Barcodes to Identify Closely Related Species of Ferns: A Case Study of the Chinese Adiantum (Pteridaceae)

• Fan-Hong Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fan-Hong Wang, Jin-Mei Lu

  Affiliations Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jin-Mei Lu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fan-Hong Wang, Jin-Mei Lu

  Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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• Jun Wen ,

  * E-mail: wenj@si.edu (JW); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL)

  Affiliation Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

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• Atsushi Ebihara,

  Affiliation Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan

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• De-Zhu Li

  * E-mail: wenj@si.edu (JW); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL)

  Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

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