Bioinformatic challenges for DNA metabarcoding of plants and animals

E Coissac, T Riaz, N Puillandre - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Almost all empirical studies in ecology have to identify the species involved in the ecological
process under examination. DNA metabarcoding, which couples the principles of DNA …

A genomic perspective on the shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA for “barcoding” identification

D Rubinoff, S Cameron, K Will - Journal of heredity, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Approximately 600-bp sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been designated as
“DNA barcodes” and have become one of the most contentious and animated issues in the …

Power and limitations of the chloroplast trn L (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

P Taberlet, E Coissac, F Pompanon… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
DNA barcoding should provide rapid, accurate and automatable species identifications by
using a standardized DNA region as a tag. Based on sequences available in GenBank and …

Environmental metabarcodes for insects: in silico PCR reveals potential for taxonomic bias

LJ Clarke, J Soubrier, LS Weyrich… - Molecular ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of insect assemblages are suited to the simultaneous DNA‐based identification of
multiple taxa known as metabarcoding. To obtain accurate estimates of diversity …

An In silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodes

GF Ficetola, E Coissac, S Zundel, T Riaz, W Shehzad… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
Background DNA barcoding is a key tool for assessing biodiversity in both taxonomic and
environmental studies. Essential features of barcodes include their applicability to a wide …

Underestimation of species richness in Neotropical frogs revealed by mtDNA analyses

A Fouquet, A Gilles, M Vences, C Marty, M Blanc… - PLoS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Amphibians are rapidly vanishing. At the same time, it is most likely that the
number of amphibian species is highly underestimated. Recent DNA barcoding work has …

The use of mean instead of smallest interspecific distances exaggerates the size of the “barcoding gap” and leads to misidentification

R Meier, G Zhang, F Ali - Systematic biology, 2008 - academic.oup.com
DNA barcoding is one of the best funded and most visible large-scale initiatives in
systematic biology and has generated both much interest and controversy. DNA barcoding …

Deciphering amphibian diversity through DNA barcoding: chances and challenges

M Vences, M Thomas, RM Bonett… - … Transactions of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amphibians globally are in decline, yet there is still a tremendous amount of unrecognized
diversity, calling for an acceleration of taxonomic exploration. This process will be greatly …

Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces

BE Deagle, R Kirkwood, SN Jarman - Molecular ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐based techniques have proven useful for defining trophic links in a variety of
ecosystems and recently developed sequencing technologies provide new opportunities for …

Relationship between morphological taxonomy and molecular divergence within Crustacea: proposal of a molecular threshold to help species delimitation

T Lefébure, CJ Douady, M Gouy, J Gibert - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2006 - Elsevier
With today's technology for production of molecular sequences, DNA taxonomy and
barcoding arose as a new tool for evolutionary biology and ecology. However, their validities …