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The future of dna barcoding : Reflections from early career researchers

Grant, Danielle M. ; Brodnicke, Ole Bjørn ; Evankow, Ann M. ; Ferreira, André O. ; Fontes, João T. ; Hansen, Aslak Kappel ; Jensen, Mads Reinholdt ; Kalaycı, Tuğba Ergül ; Leeper, Alexandra and Patil, Shalaka Kiran , et al. (2021) In Diversity 13(7).
Abstract

Over the last two decades, the use of DNA barcodes has transformed our ability to identify and assess life on our planet. Both strengths and weaknesses of the method have been exemplified through thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles. Given the novel sequencing approaches, currently capable of generating millions of reads at low cost, we reflect on the questions: What will the future bring for DNA barcoding? Will identification of species using short, standardized fragments of DNA stand the test of time? We present reflected opinions of early career biodiversity researchers in the form of a SWOT analysis and discuss answers to these questions.

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Biodiversity, Biomonitoring, Cryptic species, High-throughput sequencing, Metabarcoding, Reference libraries
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Diversity
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13
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7
article number
313
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MDPI AG
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1424-2818
DOI
10.3390/d13070313
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English
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  author       = {{Grant, Danielle M. and Brodnicke, Ole Bjørn and Evankow, Ann M. and Ferreira, André O. and Fontes, João T. and Hansen, Aslak Kappel and Jensen, Mads Reinholdt and Kalaycı, Tuğba Ergül and Leeper, Alexandra and Patil, Shalaka Kiran and Prati, Sebastian and Reunamo, Anna and Roberts, Aradhana J. and Shigdel, Rajesh and Tyukosova, Valentina and Bendiksby, Mika and Blaalid, Rakel and Costa, Filipe O. and Hollingsworth, Peter M. and Stur, Elisabeth and Ekrem, Torbjørn}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{The future of dna barcoding : Reflections from early career researchers}},
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  doi          = {{10.3390/d13070313}},
  volume       = {{13}},
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