Performance of DNA metabarcoding, standard barcoding, and morphological approach in the identification of host-parasitoid interactions.

ABSTRACT: Understanding interactions between herbivores and parasitoids is essential for successful biodiversity protection and monitoring and for biological pest control. Morphological identifications employ insect rearing and are complicated by insects' high diversity and crypsis. DNA barcoding has been successfully used in studies of host-parasitoid interactions as it can substantially increase the recovered real host-parasitoid diversity distorted by overlooked species complexes, or by species with slight morphological differences. However, this approach does not allow the simultaneous detection and identification of host(s) and parasitoid(s). Recently, high-throughput sequencing has shown high potential for surveying ecological communities and trophic interactions. Using mock samples comprising

SUBMITTER: Sigut M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5728528 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature