Ten years of barcoding at the African Centre for DNA Barcoding.
The African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB) was established in 2005 as part of a global initiative to accurately and rapidly survey biodiversity using short DNA sequences. The mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene (CO1) was rapidly adopted as the de facto barcode for animals. Following the evaluation of several candidate loci for plants, the Plant Working Group of the Consortium for the Barcoding of Life in 2009 recommended that two plastid genes, rbcLa and matK, be adopted as core DNA barcodes for terrestrial plants. To date, numerous studies continue to test the discriminatory power of these markers across various plant lineages. Over the past decade, we at the ACDB have used these core DNA barcodes to generate a barcode library for southern Africa. To date, the ACDB has contributed more than 21 000 plant barcodes and over 3000 CO1 barcodes for animals to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD). Building upon this effort, we at the ACDB have addressed questions related to community assembly, biogeography, phylogenetic diversification, and invasion biology. Collectively, our work demonstrates the diverse applications of DNA barcoding in ecology, systematics, evolutionary biology, and conservation.
a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.|b Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Docteur Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G4, Quebec, Canada.
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c Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.|e Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW93AB, United Kingdom.
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d Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, APK Campus 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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a African Centre for DNA Barcoding, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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D000349:Africa; D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D060365:Chloroplast Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D058893:DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics
D060365:Chloroplast Proteins; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
African flora and fauna; CO1; DNA barcoding; applications en écologie; codage à barres de l’ADN; définition d’espèces; ecological applications; flore et faune africaines; matK; rbcLa; species delimitation