Sean Nee's Biodiversity Module DNA barcoding
Identifying specimens, defining species and surveying diversity

Mark Blaxter

[ lecture slides as pdf | links to barcoding websites | references ]

Here are the slides from the lecture (PDF format) 2007 version

The Blaxter lab has been using barcode technology to examine meiofaunal diversity.

The International Consortium for the Barcode of Life is here.

CBoL's publications page is here.

Paul Hebert's BarcodingLife page is here.

Here are some references underpinning the lecture

see especially the Phil Trans Roy Soc special issue on barcoding at the Royal Society Publications WWW site.

Blaxter_2003_Nature_Angels.pdf	Nature News and Views on DNA barcoding proposal by Hebert
barcoding_paper.pdf	DNA barcoding proposal by Hebert
Hebert_Barcoding.pdf	Hebert et al testing utility of cytochrome oxidase 1 as a barcode marker
Blaxter_2004_PTRSLB_MolTax.pdf	Review on DNA taxonomy
Tautz_et_al.pdf	Tautz et al original "Plea for a DNA taxonomy"
Blaxter_2005_PTRSLB_Barcodes.pdf	Review on Barcode data analysis
Elephants_Science.pdf	How many species of elephants?
Elephant_PRSLSB.pdf	How many species of elephants?
Blaxter_2003_PRSLetters_tardigrades.pdf	How many species of tardigrades?
Zettler_river_of_fire.pdf	Microbial eukaryotic diversity: community surveys.
Diaz_eukaryotic_diversity.pdf	Microbial eukaryotic diversity: community surveys.
Moreira.pdf	Microbial eukaryotic diversity: community surveys.
Pons_2006_SysBiol_Barcodes.pdf	Beetle barcoding in Australia
vogler&monaghan2007.pdf	A discussion of DNA taxonomy