An emergent science on the brink of irrelevance: a review of the past 8 years of DNA barcoding

HR Taylor, WE Harris - Molecular ecology resources, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding has become a well‐funded, global enterprise since its proposition as a
technique for species identification, delimitation and discovery in 2003. However, the rapid …

Bioinformatics opportunities for identification and study of medicinal plants

V Sharma, IN Sarkar - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Plants have been used as a source of medicine since historic times and several
commercially important drugs are of plant-based origin. The traditional approach towards …

The seven deadly sins of DNA barcoding

RA Collins, RH Cruickshank - Molecular ecology resources, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the broad benefits that DNA barcoding can bring to a diverse range of biological
disciplines, a number of shortcomings still exist in terms of the experimental design of …

DNA barcoding of recently diverged species: relative performance of matching methods

R van Velzen, E Weitschek, G Felici, FT Bakker - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Recently diverged species are challenging for identification, yet they are frequently of
special interest scientifically as well as from a regulatory perspective. DNA barcoding has …

Unbiased probabilistic taxonomic classification for DNA barcoding

P Somervuo, S Koskela, J Pennanen… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: When targeted to a barcoding region, high-throughput sequencing can be used
to identify species or operational taxonomical units from environmental samples, and thus to …

The marker choice: Unexpected resolving power of an unexplored CO1 region for layered DNA barcoding approaches

J Rach, T Bergmann, O Paknia, R DeSalle… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The potential of DNA barcoding approaches to identify single species and characterize
species compositions strongly depends on the marker choice. The prominent “Folmer …

Assessment of fish diversity in the South China Sea using DNA taxonomy

L Xu, X Wang, K Van Damme, D Huang, Y Li, L Wang… - Fisheries …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The South China Sea (SCS) is part of the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, which is
regarded as harboring a high diversity of fish. However, our knowledge of true fish diversity …

BLOG 2.0: a software system for character‐based species classification with DNA Barcode sequences. What it does, how to use it

E Weitschek, R Van Velzen, G Felici… - Molecular ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
BLOG (Barcoding with LOG ic) is a diagnostic and character‐based DNA Barcode analysis
method. Its aim is to classify specimens to species based on DNA Barcode sequences and …

Assessment of Four Molecular Markers as Potential DNA Barcodes for Red Algae Kappaphycus Doty and Eucheuma J. Agardh (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta)

J Tan, PE Lim, SM Phang, DD Hong, H Sunarpi… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
DNA barcoding has been a major advancement in the field of taxonomy, seeing much effort
put into the barcoding of wide taxa of organisms, macro and microalgae included. The …

Blood meal analysis and virus detection in blood-fed mosquitoes collected during the 2006–2007 Rift Valley fever outbreak in Kenya

J Lutomiah, D Omondi, D Masiga, C Mutai… - Vector-Borne and …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Abstract Background: Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonosis of domestic ruminants in Africa.
Blood-fed mosquitoes collected during the 2006–2007 RVF outbreak in Kenya were …