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ArticleScientific data2022

DNA barcode reference library for the West Sahara-Sahel reptiles.

Guillermo Velo-Antón, Margarida Henrique, André Vicente Liz, Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos, Philippe Geniez, Pierre-André Crochet, José Carlos Brito

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Article in Scientific data, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors.

Guillermo Velo-AntónUniversidade de Vigo, Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Grupo GEA, Vigo, E-36310, Spain. guillermo.velo@uvigo.es.ORCID 0000-0002-9483-5695
Margarida HenriqueCIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.
André Vicente LizCIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.
Fernando Martínez-FreiríaCIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal.
Juan Manuel PleguezuelosDepartamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, E-18071, Granada, Spain.
Philippe GeniezCEFE, EPHE-PSL, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, Biogéographie et Ecologie des Vertébrés, Montpellier, France.
Pierre-André CrochetCEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France.
José Carlos BritoCIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal. jcbrito@cibio.up.pt.ORCID 0000-0001-5444-8132

Funding

Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund 11052709, 11052707, 13257467National Geographic Society CRE-7629-04, CRE-8412-08, GEFNE-53-12Rufford Foundation (Rufford Small Grants Foundation) SG-15399-1, SG-17893-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA barcode reference libraries are now continuously produced for the tree of life, which are essential pillars for the study of biological diversity. Yet, our knowledge about global diversity is largely limited in undersampled regions such as the largest warm desert, the Sahara-Sahel. This dataset provides a DNA barcode reference library for the reptiles of the Western Sahara-Sahel (WSS) and neighbouring countries across this region. It includes 760 barcodes from 133 reptile taxa, distributed in 23 families, and covering the intraspecific diversity of some species. A total of 84 species were collected in the WSS (83% of the total reptile species richness) over 18 overland field expeditions conducted since 2003. DNA barcodes resulted in a high success rate (95%) of species identification and barcoding gap analysis highlighted the effectiveness of the COI fragment as a barcode marker for the WSS reptiles. This dataset represents a comprehensive and reliable DNA reference library for the WSS, filling an important biodiversity gap across a remote and hard-to-sample region.

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DNA Barcoding, TaxonomicReptilesAfrica, NorthernAnimalsBiodiversityGene LibraryPhylogeny

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PMID35915106
PMCPMC9343634

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