Barcoding Nature

Informed both by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and the anthropology of science, Barcoding Nature analyses DNA barcoding in the context of a sense of crisis ¿ concerning global biodiversity loss, but also the felt inadequacy of taxonomic science to address such loss. The authors chart the specific changes that this innovation is propelling in the collecting, organizing, analyzing, and archiving of biological specimens and biodiversity data.