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DNA barcoding of Northern Nearctic Muscidae (Diptera) reveals high correspondence between morphological and molecular species limits

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Title
DNA barcoding of Northern Nearctic Muscidae (Diptera) reveals high correspondence between morphological and molecular species limits
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6785-12-24
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Anaïs K Renaud, Jade Savage, Sarah J Adamowicz

Abstract

Various methods have been proposed to assign unknown specimens to known species using their DNA barcodes, while others have focused on using genetic divergence thresholds to estimate "species" diversity for a taxon, without a well-developed taxonomy and/or an extensive reference library of DNA barcodes. The major goals of the present work were to: a) conduct the largest species-level barcoding study of the Muscidae to date and characterize the range of genetic divergence values in the northern Nearctic fauna; b) evaluate the correspondence between morphospecies and barcode groupings defined using both clustering-based and threshold-based approaches; and c) use the reference library produced to address taxonomic issues.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Finland 1 1%
Colombia 1 1%
Poland 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 95 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 18%
Student > Master 15 15%
Researcher 14 14%
Student > Bachelor 13 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 10%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 11 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 57 58%
Environmental Science 9 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 7%
Engineering 3 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 15 15%
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