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DNA barcodes for bio-surveillance: regulated and economically important arthropod plant pests
- Source :
- Genome. 59(11)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Many of the arthropod species that are important pests of agriculture and forestry are impossible to discriminate morphologically throughout all of their life stages. Some cannot be differentiated at any life stage. Over the past decade, DNA barcoding has gained increasing adoption as a tool to both identify known species and to reveal cryptic taxa. Although there has not been a focused effort to develop a barcode library for them, reference sequences are now available for 77% of the 409 species of arthropods documented on major pest databases. Aside from developing the reference library needed to guide specimen identifications, past barcode studies have revealed that a significant fraction of arthropod pests are a complex of allied taxa. Because of their importance as pests and disease vectors impacting global agriculture and forestry, DNA barcode results on these arthropods have significant implications for quarantine detection, regulation, and management. The current review discusses these implications in light of the presence of cryptic species in plant pests exposed by DNA barcoding.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Integrated pest management
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Insect Control
Invasive species
law.invention
law
Quarantine
Genetics
Species identification
Animals
DNA Barcoding, Taxonomic
Molecular Biology
Arthropods
Ecology
business.industry
General Medicine
Plants
biology.organism_classification
Life stage
010602 entomology
Dna barcodes
Agriculture
Arthropod
business
Introduced Species
Biotechnology
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14803321
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Genome
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7031326e03bcdbfebe8577f76c07f738