Ian Thompson works at his lab station at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario where he uses DNA bar coding technology to catalogue hundreds of insects.

Ian Thompson works at his lab station at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario where he uses DNA bar coding technology to catalogue hundreds of insects.
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