| barcoding chrysomelidae: a resource for taxonomy and biodiversity conservation in the mediterranean region. | the mediterranean region is one of the world's biodiversity hot-spots, which is also characterized by high level of endemism. approximately 2100 species of leaf beetle (coleoptera; chrysomelidae) are known from this area, a number that increases year after year and represents 5/6% of the known species. these features, associated with the urgent need to develop a dna-based species identification approach for a broad spectrum of leaf beetle species, prompted us to develop a database of nucleotide ... | 2016 | 27408584 |