1. Four years of DNA barcoding: Current advances and prospects
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Lise Frézal, Raphaël Leblois, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Biologie Intégrative des Populations, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité (OSEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
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0106 biological sciences ,MESH: Sequence Analysis, DNA ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,Barcode ,01 natural sciences ,DNA barcoding ,law.invention ,law ,MESH: DNA Fingerprinting ,Species identification ,MESH: Animals ,DNA taxonomy ,0303 health sciences ,Animal life ,[SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,Classification ,DNA Barcoding ,MESH: Classification ,Infectious Diseases ,Cytochrome c oxidase ,Microbiology (medical) ,Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit 1 ,Zoology ,Biology ,DNA, Mitochondrial ,International species databank ,010603 evolutionary biology ,Microbiology ,COI ,03 medical and health sciences ,Species Specificity ,DNA barcode ,Genetics ,Animals ,MESH: Species Specificity ,Dna taxonomy ,Animal species ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,Electronic Data Processing ,[SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,MESH: DNA, Mitochondrial ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,DNA Fingerprinting ,Evolutionary biology ,Classification methods ,MESH: Automatic Data Processing ,BOLD - Abstract
International audience; Research using cytochrome c oxidase barcoding techniques on zoological specimens was initiated by Hebert et al. [Hebert, P.D.N., Ratnasingham, S., deWaard, J.R., 2003. Barcoding animal life: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270, S96-S99]. By March 2004, the Consortium for the Barcode of Life started to promote the use of a standardized DNA barcoding approach, consisting of identifying a specimen as belonging to a certain animal species based on a single universal marker: the DNA barcode sequence. Over the last 4 years, this approach has become increasingly popular and advances as well as limitations have clearly emerged as increasing amounts of organisms have been studied. Our purpose is to briefly expose DNA Barcode of Life principles, pros and cons, relevance and universality. The initially proposed Barcode of life framework has greatly evolved, giving rise to a flexible description of DNA barcoding and a larger range of applications.
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- 2008
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