Enhancing DNA barcode reference libraries by harvesting terrestrial arthropods at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

The use of DNA barcoding has revolutionised biodiversity science, but its application depends on the existence of comprehensive and reliable reference libraries. For many poorly known taxa, such reference sequences are missing even at higher-level taxonomic scales. We harvested the collections of th...

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Main Authors: Bernardo Santos, Meredith Miller, Margarita Miklasevskaja, Jaclyn McKeown, Niamh Redmond, Jonathan Coddington, Jessica Bird, Scott Miller, Ashton Smith, Seán Brady, Matthew Buffington, M. Lourdes Chamorro, Torsten Dikow, Michael Gates, Paul Goldstein, Alexander Konstantinov, Robert Kula, Nicholas Silverson, M. Alma Solis, Stephanie deWaard, Suresh Naik, Nadya Nikolova, Mikko Pentinsaari, Sean Prosser, Jayme Sones, Evgeny Zakharov, Jeremy deWaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-04-01
Series:Biodiversity Data Journal
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Online Access:https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/100904/download/pdf/