Ecology in the age of DNA barcoding: the resource, the promise and the challenges ahead
Ten years after DNA barcoding was initially suggested as a tool to identify species, millions of barcode sequences from more than 1100 species are available in public databases. While several studies have reviewed the methods and potential applications of DNA barcoding, most have focused on species...
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Published in | Molecular ecology resources Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 221 - 232 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.03.2014
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
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Summary: | Ten years after DNA barcoding was initially suggested as a tool to identify species, millions of barcode sequences from more than 1100 species are available in public databases. While several studies have reviewed the methods and potential applications of DNA barcoding, most have focused on species identification and discovery, and relatively few have addressed applications of DNA barcoding data to ecology. These data, and the associated information on the evolutionary histories of taxa that they can provide, offer great opportunities for ecologists to investigate questions that were previously difficult or impossible to address. We present an overview of potential uses of DNA barcoding relevant in the age of ecoinformatics, including applications in community ecology, species invasion, macroevolution, trait evolution, food webs and trophic interactions, metacommunities, and spatial ecology. We also outline some of the challenges and potential advances in DNA barcoding that lie ahead. |
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Bibliography: | Fig. S1 Complete eukaryote tree of life built by maximum likelihood from 29 amino acid gene sequences representing the number of described species (hollow bar) and the number of species with a known barcode (solid bar), with species richness log10 transformed.Table S1 Taxonomic information for the organisms used in the phylogenetic analysis, and number of species and number of species with barcode data for each lineage represented by an organism in the analysis.Appendix S1 Phylogenetic analysis of major eukaryote lineages. ArticleID:MEN12173 istex:8FD7C8E40C007571B0C86F362C8337F00AC49826 ark:/67375/WNG-N1G9B4L8-2 Biology Department of McGill University Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences (QCBS) Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1755-098X 1755-0998 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1755-0998.12173 |