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Plant DNA Barcodes, Taxonomic Management, and Species Discovery in Tropical Forests

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DNA barcodes have great potential for species identification and taxonomic discovery in tropical forests. This use of DNA barcodes requires a reference DNA library of known taxa with which to match DNA from unidentified specimens. At an even more basic level, it presupposes that the species in the regional species pool have Latin binomials. This is not the case in species-rich tropical forests in which many species are new to science or members of poorly circumscribed species complexes. This chapter describes a workflow geared toward taxonomic discovery, which includes the discovery of new species, distribution records, and hybrid forms, and to management of taxonomic entities in forest inventory plots. It outlines the roles of laboratory technicians, field workers and herbarium-based taxonomists, and concludes with a discussion of potential multilocus nuclear DNA approaches for identifying species in recently evolved clades.

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Acknowledgments

Some of the methods were derived from research supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB awards 0640379 to CD, and 1020868 to CW) and the Center for Tropical Forest Sciences. We thank John Kress and David Erickson for the invitation and for useful ideas for the paper.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Christopher W. Dick

  2. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Campbell O. Webb

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  1. National Museum of Natural History, Dept. Botany, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW.,, Washington, 20560-0166, District of Columbia, USA

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  2. National Museum of Natural History, Dept. Botany, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW.,, Washington, 20560-0166, District of Columbia, USA

    David L. Erickson

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Dick, C.W., Webb, C.O. (2012). Plant DNA Barcodes, Taxonomic Management, and Species Discovery in Tropical Forests. In: Kress, W., Erickson, D. (eds) DNA Barcodes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 858. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-591-6_18

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