DNA Barcoding of the North Sea Zooplankton - WCMB 2011.mpg

Marine zooplankton populations represent excellent "model organisms" for monitoring aquatic ecosystems. In order to understand shifts in the North Sea zooplankton community, a valid species identification is indispensable. To investigate the effectiveness of the COI gene to provide species-level identification for a wide variety of zooplankton taxa, with a special emphasis on meroplankton, we sequenced COI from 173 zooplankton specimens.

The establishment of a sequence library of morphologically identified adult species combined with larval stages that hampers traditional morphological identification, provides a valuable tool ideally suited to studying the biodiversity of the metazoan fauna of the North Sea through a barcoding approach.

This is a digital object contribution to the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2011.


MOHRBECK, I., MARTÍNEZ ARBIZU, P., RAUPACH, M.J., LAAKMANN S. (2011)

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• DNA
• Barcoding
• of
• the
• North
• Sea
• Zooplankton
• WCMB
• 2011