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DNA Barcoding of Life

Compiled and edited by V Savolainen, RS Cowan, AP Vogler, GK Roderick &
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Published October 2005

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An international consortium of major natural history museums, herbaria
and other organizations has launched an ambitious project, the 'Barcode
of Life Initiative', to promote a process enabling the rapid and
inexpensive identification of the estimated 10 million species on Earth.
DNA barcoding is a diagnostic technique in which short DNA sequence(s)
can be used for species identification.

The scientific benefits of DNA barcoding include: (i) enabling species
identification, including any life stage or fragment, (ii) facilitating
species discoveries based on cluster analyses of gene sequences (e.g.

cox1=CO1, in animals), (iii) promoting development of handheld DNA
sequencing technology that can be applied in the field for biodiversity
inventories and (iv) providing insight into the diversity of life.

The first international scientific conference on Barcoding of Life was
held at the Natural History Museum in London in February 2005 and in
this volume we review the scientific challenges discussed during this
conference and in previous publications.

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Contents:

Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA
barcoding - V Savolainen, RS Cowan, AP Vogler, GK Roderick & R Lane DNA
barcodes for biosecurity: invasive species identification - KF Armstrong
& SL Ball DNA Barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a
hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar - MA Smith, BL
Fisher & PDN Hebert Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and
complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding - DH Janzen, M Hajibabaei,
JM Burns, W Hallwachs, E Remigio & PDN Hebert DNA barcoding Australia's
fish species - RD Ward, TS Zemlak, BH Innes, PR Last & PDN Hebert
Deciphering amphibian diversity through DNA barcoding: chances and
challenges - M Vences, M Thomas, RM Bonett & DR Vieites The problems and
promise of DNA barcodes for species diagnosis of primate biomaterials -
JG Lorenz, WE Jackson, JC Beck & R Hanner Applying DNA barcoding to red
macroalgae: a preliminary appraisal holds promise for future
applications - GW Saunders Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and
long-term goals - MW Chase, N Salamin, M Wilkinson, JM Dunwell, RP
Kesanakurthi, N Haidar & V Savolainen

Microcoding: the second step in DNA barcoding - RC Summerbell, CA
Levesque, KA Seifert, M Bovers, JW Fell, MR Diaz, T Boekhout, GS de
Hoog, J Stalpers & P Crous The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species
delimitation and DNA barcoding - R DeSalle, MG Egan & M Siddall Reverse
taxonomy: an approach towards determining the diversity of meiobenthic
organisms based on ribosomal RNA signature sequences - M Markmann & D
Tautz DNA-based species delineation in tropical beetles using
mitochondrial and nuclear markers - MT Monaghan, M Balke,TR Gregory & AP
Vogler Defining operational taxonomic units using DNA barcode data - M
Blaxter, J Mann, T Chapman, F Thomas, C Whitton, R Floyd & E Abebe An
integrated approach to fast and informative morphological vouchering of
nematodes for applications in molecular barcoding - P De Ley, IT De Ley,
K Morris, E Abebe, M Mundo-Ocampo, M Yoder, J Heras, D Waumann, A
Rocha-Olivares, AHJ Burr, JG Baldwin & WK Thomas Critical factors for
assembling a high volume of DNA barcodes - M Hajibabaei, JR deWaard, NV
Ivanova, S Ratnasingham, RT Dooh, SL Kirk, PM Mackie & PDN Hebert A
likelihood ratio test for species membership based on DNA sequence data
- MV Matz & R Nielsen TaxI - a software tool for DNA barcoding using
distance methods - D Steinke, M Vences, W Salzburger & A Meyer