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Workshop on barcoded DNA: application to rotifer phylogeny, evolution, and systematics

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DNA barcoding is the use of segments of gene sequences to assign individual organisms to species. Thus it can be used to define species and to identify specimens. Barcoding has been applied as an aid to systematics with little controversy in both monogonont and bdelloid rotifers, and also in environmental sequencing projects designed to determine the diversity of microscopic organisms. In contrast, a great deal of controversy has arisen over the creation of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life, a major initiative to barcode all the species in several major groups of animals, with the long-range goal of barcoding all species of organisms. This is a very brief review of DNA barcoding, especially as applied to rotifers, and a summary of the results of a workshop held at the 11th International Workshop on Rotifera.

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to S.S.S. Sarma and the rest of the organizers of Rotifera XI for giving me the opportunity to run a workshop on barcoding and to write this brief review of the subject. I thank Hendrik Segers for sharing his Powerpoint file; any omissions or misrepresentations of his position or of any other contributions are entirely my fault. David Mark Welch and an anonymous reviewer provided helpful comments on the first draft of this manuscript.

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Guest editors: S. S. S. Sarma, R. D. Gulati, R. L. Wallace, S. Nandini, H. J. Dumont and R. Rico-Martínez

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Birky, C.W. Workshop on barcoded DNA: application to rotifer phylogeny, evolution, and systematics. Hydrobiologia 593, 175–183 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-007-9052-y

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