Kipling Will

TL;DR: So‐called DNA barcodes have recently been proposed to answer the problem of specimen identification and to quantify global biodiversity but this proposition is found to be wanting in terms of rationale, methodology and interpretation of results.

TL;DR: The natural history of mtDNA is reviewed and problems for barcoding which are particularly associated with mtDNA and inheritance are discussed, including reduced effective population size, maternal inheritance, recombination, inconsistent mutation rate, heteroplasmy, and compounding evolutionary processes.

TL;DR: Collecting biological specimens for scientific studies came under scrutiny when B. A. Minteer and colleagues suggested that this practice plays a significant role in species extinctions.

TL;DR: Garnett and Christidis as mentioned in this paper argued that the lack of governance of taxonomy damages conservation efforts, harms the credibility of science, and is costly to society, and pointed out that the scientific community's failure to govern taxonomy threatens the effectiveness of global efforts to halt biodiversity loss.