PASSIFOR: A reference library of DNA barcodes for French saproxylic beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera).

ABSTRACT: Saproxylic beetles - associated with dead wood or with other insects, fungi and microorganisms that decompose it - play a major role in forest nutrient cycling. They are important ecosystem service providers and are used as key bio-indicators of old-growth forests. In France alone, where the present study took place, there are about 2500 species distributed within 71 families. This high diversity represents a major challenge for specimen sorting and identification. The PASSIFOR project aims at developing a DNA metabarcoding approach to facilitate and enhance the monitoring of saproxylic beetles as indicators in ecological studies. As a first step toward that goal we assembled a library of DNA barcodes using the standard genetic marker for animals, i.e. a portion of the COI mitochondrial ge

SUBMITTER: Rougerie R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4355675 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature