Identification, Discrimination, and Discovery of Species of Marine Planktonic Ostracods Using DNA Barcodes.

ABSTRACT: The Ostracoda (Crustacea; Class Ostracoda) is a diverse, frequently abundant, and ecologically important component of the marine zooplankton assemblage. There are more than 200 described species of marine planktonic ostracods, many of which (especially conspecific species) can be identified only by microscopic examination and dissection of fragile morphological characters. Given the complexity of species identification and increasing lack of expert taxonomists, DNA barcodes (short DNA sequences for species discrimination and identification) are particularly useful and necessary. Results are reported from analysis of 210 specimens of 78 species of marine planktonic ostracods, including two novel species, and 51 species for which barcodes have not been previously published. Specimens were co

SUBMITTER: Nigro LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4701487 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature