"DNA barcoding" is of limited value for identifying adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) but supports traditional morphological taxonomy

Title:

"DNA barcoding" is of limited value for identifying adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) but supports traditional morphological taxonomy

Creator:

Žurovcová, Martina, Havelka, Jan, Starý, Petr, Věchtová, Pavlína, Chundelová, Daniela, Jarošová , Andrea, and Kučerová, Lucie

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:3e5c6e9b-1af4-4bff-bf8e-f8fb77b57bc3
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Subject:

Adelgidae, aphids, species identification, systematics, and DNA barcoding

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The sequence diversity in the mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) gene was evaluated as a tool for resolving differences among species of European adelgids collected from several localities across the Czech Republic. Members of 7 genera and 16 species were examined, and as outgroups, two species of Phylloxeridae were used. Sequence divergences within species were on average less than 0.15%, whereas divergences between species ranged from 0.0 to 4.12% for congeneric and to 13.24% for intergeneric comparisons. It is concluded that DNA barcoding of Adelgidae is a powerful tool for identifying genera, but at the species level it works only in those cases where there are no species complexes. Nevertheless, it can be used as a complement to traditional, morphological taxonomy.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2010 Volume:107 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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