Morphological identification of specimens is optional within the workflow and could be completed at a later time for confirmatory purposes.
MAMMA is the main investigator responsible for the field study, identification of specimens, and writing and revision of the manuscript.
These results are summarized in Table 5, reinforcing the point of mutually exclusive detection and identification of specimen-specific gene sequences from the HA1 and NA1 detector tiles (as A/H1N1) or from the HA3 and NA2 detector tiles (as A/H3N2).
By confirming the identification of specimens through DNA barcodes, local museums can establish reference collections that can serve as a basis for future research including the description of new species.
Our identification of specimens in the van der Land [1] collection from the 1972 expedition to Saba Bank revealed 56 species, with 29 of these not represented in the 2006 surveys (Table S1).
Data bases have been established, containing complete cyt b and rhodopsin gene sequences of European marine fish species [21] (www.fishtrace.org), as well as partial 16S, cyt b, and COI sequences of anchovies [11] (http://anchovyid.jrc.ec.europa.eu) to enable a sequence-based identification of specimens.
Highly conserved regions which flank the variable regions allow the use of 'universal' primers (working for most metazoan taxa, vertebrates and invertebrates as well) [22], a necessary feature for the identification of specimens whose taxonomic belonging is not known a priori.
In order to facilitate material tracking and the identification of specimen-specific characteristics needed during tissue send out or processing, the Resource captures the pathology characteristics of the tissue specimens at the level of individual paraffin tissue blocks and frozen tissue slices for each case.
Given the prevalence of juvenile spiders in most collections, DNA barcoding is a powerful tool for the identification of specimens, an important advance for future biomonitoring programs.
Originally, DNA barcoding was proposed to assign an unambiguous tag to each species, giving to taxonomists a standard method for identification of specimens.
