International Barcode of Life: Focus on big biodiversity in South Africa.
Genome
; 60(11): 875-879, 2017 Nov.
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| ID: mdl-29130757
ABSTRACT
Participants in the 7th International Barcode of Life Conference (Kruger National Park, South Africa, 20-24 November 2017) share the latest findings in DNA barcoding research and its increasingly diversified applications. Here, we review prevailing trends synthesized from among 429 invited and contributed abstracts, which are collated in this open-access special issue of Genome. Hosted for the first time on the African continent, the 7th Conference places special emphasis on the evolutionary origins, biogeography, and conservation of African flora and fauna. Within Africa and elsewhere, DNA barcoding and related techniques are being increasingly used for wildlife forensics and for the validation of commercial products, such as medicinal plants and seafood species. A striking trend of the conference is the dramatic rise of studies on environmental DNA (eDNA) and on diverse uses of high-throughput sequencing techniques. Emerging techniques in these areas are opening new avenues for environmental biomonitoring, managing species-at-risk and invasive species, and revealing species interaction networks in unprecedented detail. Contributors call for the development of validated community standards for high-throughput sequence data generation and analysis, to enable the full potential of these methods to be realized for understanding and managing biodiversity on a global scale.
Palavras-chave
ADN environnemental; DNA barcoding; bioinformatics; bioinformatique; biomes; codage à barres de l'ADN; community phylogenetics; ecology; environmental DNA; evolution; genome skimming; genomics; génomique; high-throughput sequencing; next-generation sequencing; phylogénétique des communautés; pollination; pollinisation; research trends; séquençage de prochaine génération; séquençage à grand débit; tendances en recherche; écologie; écrémage génomique; évolution
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Evolução Molecular
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Biodiversidade
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Código de Barras de DNA Taxonômico
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Genome
Assunto da revista:
GENETICA
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá