DNA barcoding of marine metazoa

A Bucklin, D Steinke… - Annual review of marine …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

An emergent science on the brink of irrelevance: a review of the past 8 years of DNA barcoding

HR Taylor, WE Harris - Molecular ecology resources, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding has become a well‐funded, global enterprise since its proposition as a
technique for species identification, delimitation and discovery in 2003. However, the rapid …

ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation

N Puillandre, A Lambert, S Brouillet… - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Within uncharacterized groups, DNA barcodes, short DNA sequences that are present in a
wide range of species, can be used to assign organisms into species. We propose an …

Can DNA barcoding accurately discriminate megadiverse Neotropical freshwater fish fauna?

LHG Pereira, R Hanner, F Foresti, C Oliveira - BMC genetics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The megadiverse Neotropical freshwater ichthyofauna is the richest in
the world with approximately 6,000 recognized species. Interestingly, they are distributed …

Four years of DNA barcoding: current advances and prospects

L Frézal, R Leblois - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2008 - Elsevier
Research using cytochrome c oxidase barcoding techniques on zoological specimens was
initiated by Hebert et al.[Hebert, PDN, Ratnasingham, S., deWaard, JR, 2003. Barcoding …

Character-based DNA barcoding allows discrimination of genera, species and populations in Odonata

J Rach, R DeSalle, IN Sarkar… - … of the Royal …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA barcoding has become a promising means for identifying organisms of all life stages.
Currently, phenetic approaches and tree-building methods have been used to define …

Systematic and evolutionary insights derived from mtDNA COI barcode diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca)

J Matzen da Silva, S Creer, A Dos Santos, AC Costa… - PLoS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Decapods are the most recognizable of all crustaceans and comprise a
dominant group of benthic invertebrates of the continental shelf and slope, including many …

Limited performance of DNA barcoding in a diverse community of tropical butterflies

M Elias, RI Hill, KR Willmott… - … of the Royal …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA 'barcoding'relies on a short fragment of mitochondrial DNA to infer identification of
specimens. The method depends on genetic diversity being markedly lower within than …

A critical review on the utility of DNA barcoding in biodiversity conservation

P Krishna Krishnamurthy, RA Francis - Biodiversity and conservation, 2012 - Springer
This article considers the utility of DNA barcodes for conservation. DNA barcoding is a
molecular tool that uses standardised genetic primers, traditionally the 600-to 800-segments …

Goodbye morphology? A paradigm shift in the delimitation of species in lichenized fungi

HT Lumbsch, SD Leavitt - Fungal Diversity, 2011 - Springer
Accurate species delimitations are crucial for ecological and conservation studies,
assessments of biotic diversity, and identifying factors driving diversification. Estimates …