Development of a barcoding database for the UK Collembola: early results
We report early results from a project to accumulate COI barcodes from UK Collembola to confirm taxonomy and explore their status at an international level. We validated COI sequences for 48 species of Collembola, ranging from 335–670 bp. Of these, seventeen species matched public sequences of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Soil Organisms |
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| Online Access: | https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/288 |
| Summary: | We report early results from a project to accumulate COI barcodes from UK Collembola to confirm taxonomy and explore their status at an international level. We validated COI sequences for 48 species of Collembola, ranging from 335–670 bp. Of these, seventeen species matched public sequences of the same name, six species were identifiable but the molecular identity disagreed with the morphological identification, and twenty five species gave no reliable match. The successful matches included accurate matches to BINs from countries far from the UK, including Canada, South Africa and Russia. We suggest that, in many cases, these may have been accidentally transported with horticultural materials.
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| ISSN: | 1864-6417 2509-9523 |