Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: A case study on beach meiofauna.

Autor: Macher JN; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands.; Department of Environmental Biology, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands., Martínez A; National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA), Verbania Pallanza, Italy., Çakir S; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands., Cholley PE; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands., Christoforou E; Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute, CMMI House, Larnaca, Cyprus.; Department of Chemical Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus., Curini Galletti M; Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy.; National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy., van Galen L; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands., García-Cobo M; Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Jondelius U; Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden., de Jong D; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands., Leasi F; Department of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA., Lemke M; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands., Rubio Lopez I; National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA), Verbania Pallanza, Italy.; Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague 2, Czech Republic., Sánchez N; Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain., Sørensen MV; Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark., Todaro MA; National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy.; Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy., Renema W; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Marine Biodiversity, Leiden, The Netherlands.; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Fontaneto D; National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA), Verbania Pallanza, Italy.; National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Palermo, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Molecular ecology resources [Mol Ecol Resour] 2024 Oct; Vol. 24 (7), pp. e13997. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 31.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13997
Abstrakt: Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for taxonomic annotation. Our study explores the benefits of combining targeted DNA barcoding and morphological taxonomy to improve metabarcoding efficiency, using beach meiofauna as a case study. Beaches are globally important ecosystems and are inhabited by meiofauna, microscopic animals living in the interstitial space between the sand grains, which play a key role in coastal biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. However, research on meiofauna faces challenges due to limited taxonomic expertise and sparse sampling. We generated 775 new cytochrome c oxidase I DNA barcodes from meiofauna specimens collected along the Netherlands' west coast and combined them with the NCBI GenBank database. We analysed alpha and beta diversity in 561 metabarcoding samples from 24 North Sea beaches, a region extensively studied for meiofauna, using both the enriched reference database and the NCBI database without the additional reference barcodes. Our results show a 2.5-fold increase in sequence annotation and a doubling of species-level Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) identification when annotating the metabarcoding data with the enhanced database. Additionally, our analyses revealed a bell-shaped curve of OTU richness across the intertidal zone, aligning more closely with morphological analysis patterns, and more defined community dissimilarity patterns between supralittoral and intertidal sites. Our research highlights the importance of expanding molecular reference databases and combining morphological taxonomy with molecular techniques for biodiversity assessments, ultimately improving our understanding of coastal ecosystems.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Molecular Ecology Resources published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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