A paper has recently been published in Journal of the The North American Benthological Society, 2011, 30(1):131-162 (available as part of a barcodeoflife.net discussion from here). The paper details how 645 COI sequences, representing 80 species, were obtained from specimens collected in a 3-day bioblitz (short-term, intense sampling program) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was lucky to be part of the BioBlitz team back in 2007, and am very happy to see the results published!
About me
- johnjameswilson
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- I am interested in how we can use DNA sequences to understand biodiversity – how do we recognise species, and how are species related at taxonomic, ecological and geographic levels? My passion for biodiversity research has led me from the world’s largest natural history collection - Natural History Museum, London, where I completed my MSc, to the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario - global centre for the international Barcode of Life, as a PhD student, and to the hyper-diverse tropics of Southeast Asia. The tropics will be the first regions to experience historically unprecedented climates and this will happen within the next decade. Consequently my recent research has focussed on understanding the effects of urbanisation and climate change on tropical and subtropical biodiversity - encompassing both species richness and ecological integrity across a diversity of taxonomic groups.
Feb 3, 2011
Accelerated construction of a regional DNA-barcode reference library: caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A paper has recently been published in Journal of the The North American Benthological Society, 2011, 30(1):131-162 (available as part of a barcodeoflife.net discussion from here). The paper details how 645 COI sequences, representing 80 species, were obtained from specimens collected in a 3-day bioblitz (short-term, intense sampling program) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was lucky to be part of the BioBlitz team back in 2007, and am very happy to see the results published!
