DNA Barcoding Debate
Channel: NHM Digital, Data and Informatics
Date: 2014-01-17

Part of the Fifth PEET conference hosted by the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, 20--23 September, 2004. The debate was chaired by Vince Smith and includes Paul Hebert speaking for DNA barcoding, and Kipling Will against. The original video was streamed by the University of Illinois, but was unavailable in January 2014. Luke Holman, an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews, tracked down the video and the University of Illinois made it available for a short period to download. You can read more about the debate in Smith, V.S. 2005. DNA Barcoding: Perspectives from a "Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy" (PEET) Debate . Systematic Biology . 54 (5): 841-844.