CU-Boulder Team Identifies 'DNA Barcodes' to Monitor Illegal Trading of Wildlife Products

"Researchers from several institutions including the University of Colorado at Boulder have sequenced DNA "barcodes" for as many as 25 hunted wildlife species, providing information that can be used to better monitor the elusive trade of wildlife products, or bushmeat. Identifying such DNA barcodes can help wildlife officials crack down on illegal bushmeat trafficking....The DNA barcodes generated from the study have been added to an online, open-access repository called the Barcode of Life Data Systems and to the National Center for Biotechnology Information's GenBank library."