DNA barcoding of parasites and invertebrate disease vectors: what you don't know can hurt you
DNA barcoding of parasites and invertebrate disease vectors: what you don't know can hurt you
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pt.2003.09.015
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发表时间：
2003-12-01
影响因子：
9.6
通讯作者：
Ferdig, MT
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作者：
Besansky, NJ;Severson, DW;Ferdig, MT
科学界只知道现存物种的一小部分。最近，有人呼吁对所有生物多样性进行普查。传统的基于形态学的评估非常耗时，并且需要的专家数量不足且正在减少。一种称为 DNA 条形码的基于 DNA 的方法已被提议作为物种编目的快速方法。对于形态测定学困难或不可能的寄生虫以及形态学专业知识很少的蚊子宿主来说，这一举措特别有吸引力。作为多样性的索引，DNA 条形码不同于限制物种和解决其进化关系的科学，但它可以作为一个强大的支架来激励和指导这些努力。
Only a small fraction of extant species is known to science. Recently, there have been calls to census all biological diversity. Traditional morphology-based assessments are time-consuming and require specialists whose numbers are insufficient and dwindling. A DNA-based method called DNA barcoding has been proposed as a rapid means of cataloguing species. This initiative is especially attractive with respect to parasites for which morphometrics are difficult or impossible, and their mosquito hosts for which morphological expertise is rare. As an index of diversity, DNA barcoding is distinct from the science of circumscribing species and resolving their evolutionary relationships, but it can serve as a powerful scaffold both to motivate and guide these efforts.