Environmental barcoding: a next-generation sequencing approach for biomonitoring applications using river benthos.

ABSTRACT: Timely and accurate biodiversity analysis poses an ongoing challenge for the success of biomonitoring programs. Morphology-based identification of bioindicator taxa is time consuming, and rarely supports species-level resolution especially for immature life stages. Much work has been done in the past decade to develop alternative approaches for biodiversity analysis using DNA sequence-based approaches such as molecular phylogenetics and DNA barcoding. On-going assembly of DNA barcode reference libraries will provide the basis for a DNA-based identification system. The use of recently introduced next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches in biodiversity science has the potential to further extend the application of DNA information for routine biomonitoring applications to an unprecedented

SUBMITTER: Hajibabaei M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3076369 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature