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Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes
We use three examples—field and ecology-based inventories in Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea and a museum and taxonomic-based inventory of the moth family Geometridae—to demonstrate the use of DNA barcoding (a short sequence of the mitochondrial COI gene) in biodiversity inventories, from facilitati...
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The Royal Society
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27481791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0339 |
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author | Miller, Scott E. Hausmann, Axel Hallwachs, Winnie Janzen, Daniel H. |
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description | We use three examples—field and ecology-based inventories in Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea and a museum and taxonomic-based inventory of the moth family Geometridae—to demonstrate the use of DNA barcoding (a short sequence of the mitochondrial COI gene) in biodiversity inventories, from facilitating workflows of identification of freshly collected specimens from the field, to describing the overall diversity of megadiverse taxa from museum collections, and most importantly linking the fresh specimens, the general museum collections and historic type specimens. The process also flushes out unexpected sibling species hiding under long-applied scientific names, thereby clarifying and parsing previously mixed collateral data. The Barcode of Life Database has matured to an essential interactive platform for the multi-authored and multi-process collaboration. The BIN system of creating and tracking DNA sequence-based clusters as proxies for species has become a powerful way around some parts of the ‘taxonomic impediment’, especially in entomology, by providing fast but testable and tractable species hypotheses, tools for visualizing the distribution of those in time and space and an interim naming system for communication. This article is part of the themed issue ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’. |
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spelling | pubmed-49711912016-09-05 Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes Miller, Scott E. Hausmann, Axel Hallwachs, Winnie Janzen, Daniel H. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles We use three examples—field and ecology-based inventories in Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea and a museum and taxonomic-based inventory of the moth family Geometridae—to demonstrate the use of DNA barcoding (a short sequence of the mitochondrial COI gene) in biodiversity inventories, from facilitating workflows of identification of freshly collected specimens from the field, to describing the overall diversity of megadiverse taxa from museum collections, and most importantly linking the fresh specimens, the general museum collections and historic type specimens. The process also flushes out unexpected sibling species hiding under long-applied scientific names, thereby clarifying and parsing previously mixed collateral data. The Barcode of Life Database has matured to an essential interactive platform for the multi-authored and multi-process collaboration. The BIN system of creating and tracking DNA sequence-based clusters as proxies for species has become a powerful way around some parts of the ‘taxonomic impediment’, especially in entomology, by providing fast but testable and tractable species hypotheses, tools for visualizing the distribution of those in time and space and an interim naming system for communication. This article is part of the themed issue ‘From DNA barcodes to biomes’. The Royal Society 2016-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4971191/ /pubmed/27481791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0339 Text en © 2016 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Miller, Scott E. Hausmann, Axel Hallwachs, Winnie Janzen, Daniel H. Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title | Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title_full | Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title_fullStr | Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title_full_unstemmed | Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title_short | Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes |
title_sort | advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with dna barcodes |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27481791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0339 |
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