Toward the DNA Library of Life

  • Line Le Gall Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP39 75005, Paris
  • Frédéric Delsuc Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, UMR 5554, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier
  • Stéphane Hourdez Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS - UPMC, UMR 7144, Adaptation et Biologie des Invertebrés en Conditions Extrêmes, 29680 Roscoff
  • Guillaume Lecointre Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP39 75005, Paris
  • Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA, UMR 1062, CBGP Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.266
Keywords: Census of Life, eukaryotic biodiversity, molecular assisted systematics, Museum life, species description

Abstract

The special set of papers entitled “DNA Library of Life” constitutes an outcome of the project “Bibliothèque du vivant” (BdV), which aims to promote the molecular taxonomy of eukaryotes by offering research teams the possibility to produce and manage a molecular library linked with specimens deposited in natural history museums. The project was funded by three French institutions (the CNRS, INRA and MNHN), and provided access to the sequencing power offered by the Genoscope for 105 teams between 2011 and 2013. It was subsequently supported by the CNRS through the “Groupement de Recherche Génomique Environnementale”. The scientific objectives of this programme were threefold: 1) species delimitation among species complexes; 2) phylogenetic reconstruction (including phylogenomics); and 3) metabarcoding and improving NGS methods for systematic purposes. Within the present collection, 19 papers contribute to these objectives across a large taxonomic range and a worldwide geographic coverage. These papers propose taxonomic novelties (22 new species and 3 new genera) in both animal and plant taxa.

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Published
2017-01-30
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Le Gall, L., Delsuc, F., Hourdez, S., Lecointre, G., & Rasplus, J.-Y. (2017). Toward the DNA Library of Life. European Journal of Taxonomy, (266). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.266
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