Allocation of sequencing effort between mitochondrial and single copy nuclear genes in reptile species descriptions. While the use of few loci overall (blue box) may be an inevitable consequence of resource limitation, the sequencing of numerous mitochondrial gene fragments but few or no nuclear markers (orange box) constitutes a suboptimal allocation of resources for the purposes of species delimitation.

 
 
  Part of: Wüster W (2025) Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology. Vertebrate Zoology 75: 259-275. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e161536