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DNA Barcoding Kits

Choose your organism type below. Each kit includes collection materials, prepaid return postage, DNA extraction, PCR, Sanger sequencing, and a full species identification report.

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Fungi
ITS

Identify any fungus โ€” from backyard mushrooms to culture verification.

ITS1-F / ITS4
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Plants
rbcL + matK

Identify plants using the CBOL standard dual-barcode approach.

rbcLa-F/R + matK-3F/1R
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Bacteria
16S rRNA

Identify bacteria from pure cultures using full-length 16S sequencing.

27F / 1492R
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Invertebrates
COI

Insects, spiders, worms, snails โ€” the universal animal barcode.

LCO1490 / HCO2198
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Vertebrates
COI

Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals โ€” vertebrate COI barcoding.

VF1 / VR1
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Lepidoptera
COI

Butterflies and moths โ€” optimised primers for Lepidoptera.

MLepF1 / MLepR1
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Fish
COI

Fish-specific COI barcoding for species identification.

Fish2F / Fish2R