'DNA barcoding' is of limited value for identifying adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) but supports traditional morphological taxonomy
| Autor: | Martina ŽUROVCOVÁ, Jan HAVELKA, Petr STARÝ, Pavlína VĚCHTOVÁ, Daniela CHUNDELOVÁ, Andrea JAROŠOVÁ, Lucie KUČEROVÁ |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | European Journal of Entomology, Vol 107, Iss 2, Pp 147-156 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1210-5759 1802-8829 |
| DOI: | 10.14411/eje.2010.020 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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