RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A DNA barcode reference library of the French Polynesian shore fishes
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 595793
DO 10.1101/595793
A1 Erwan Delrieu-Trottin
A1 Jeffrey T. Williams
A1 Diane Pitassy
A1 Amy Driskell
A1 Nicolas Hubert
A1 Jérémie Viviani
A1 Thomas H. Cribb
A1 Benoit Espiau
A1 René Galzin
A1 Michel Kulbicki
A1 Thierry Lison de Loma
A1 Christopher Meyer
A1 Johann Mourier
A1 Gérard Mou-Tham
A1 Valeriano Parravicini
A1 Patrick Plantard
A1 Pierre Sasal
A1 Gilles Siu
A1 Nathalie Tolou
A1 Michel Veuille
A1 Lee Weigt
A1 Serge Planes
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/06/07/595793.abstract
AB The emergence of DNA barcoding and metabarcoding opened new ways to study biological diversity, however, the completion of DNA barcode libraries is fundamental for such approaches to succeed. This dataset is a DNA barcode reference library (fragment of Cytochrome Oxydase I gene) for 2,190 specimens representing at least 540 species of shore fishes collected over 10 years at 154 sites across the four volcanic archipelagos of French Polynesia; the Austral, Gambier, Marquesas and Society Islands, a 5,000,000 km2 area. At present, 65% of the known shore fish species of these archipelagoes possess a DNA barcode associated with preserved, photographed, tissue sampled and cataloged specimens, and extensive collection locality data. This dataset represents one of the most comprehensive DNA barcoding efforts for a vertebrate fauna to date. Considering the challenges associated with the conservation of coral reef fishes and the difficulties of accurately identifying species using morphological characters, this publicly available library is expected to be helpful for both authorities and academics in various fields.