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Slow Molecular Evolution

LIMITATIONS
Overview
Three factors will act to limit the success of species diagnosis using COI, but fortunately they will not impede generic-level assignments and will only rarely impede the the identification of species.

These three factors are:

Hybridization
Young Species
Slower Molecular Evolution