Half of the European fruit fly species barcoded (Diptera, Tephritidae); a feasibility test for molecular identification.

ABSTRACT: A FEASIBILITY TEST OF MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF EUROPEAN FRUIT FLIES (DIPTERA: Tephritidae) based on COI barcode sequences has been executed. A dataset containing 555 sequences of 135 ingroup species from three subfamilies and 42 genera and one single outgroup species has been analysed. 73.3% of all included species could be identified based on their COI barcode gene, based on similarity and distances. The low success rate is caused by singletons as well as some problematic groups: several species groups within the genus Terellia and especially the genus Urophora. With slightly more than 100 sequences - almost 20% of the total - this genus alone constitutes the larger part of the failure for molecular identification for this dataset. Deleting the singletons and Urophora results in a succ

SUBMITTER: Smit J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3890683 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature