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Next generation sequencing for characterizing biodiversity: promises and challenges.

François Pompanon, Sarah Samadi

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Article in Genetica, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

François PompanonLaboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France, francois.pompanon@ujf-grenoble.fr.
Sarah Samadi

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA barcoding approaches are used to describe biodiversity by analysing specimens or environmental samples in taxonomic, phylogenetic and ecological studies. While sharing data among these disciplines would be highly valuable, this remains difficult because of contradictory requirements. The properties making a DNA barcode efficient for specimen identification or species delimitation are hardly reconcilable with those required for a powerful analysis of degraded DNA from environmental samples. The use of next generation sequencing methods open up the way towards the development of new markers (e.g., multilocus barcodes) that would overcome such limitations. However, several challenges should be taken up for coordinating actions at the interface between taxonomy, ecology, molecular biology and bioinformatics in order to develop methods and protocols compatible with both taxonomic and ecological studies.

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BiodiversityDNA Barcoding, TaxonomicEcologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingPhylogeny

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