Data from: Genome- and transcriptome-assisted development of nuclear insertion/deletion markers for Calanus species (Copepoda: Calanoida) identification

Copepods of the genus Calanus are key zooplankton species in temperate to arctic marine ecosystems. Despite their ecological importance, species identification remains challenging. Furthermore, the recent report of hybrids among Calanus species highlights the need for diagnostic nuclear markers in o...

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Main Authors: Smolina, Irina, Kollias, Spyros, Poortvliet, Marloes, Nielsen, Torkel, Lindeque, Penelope, Castellani, Claudia, Møller, Eva, Blanco-Bercial, Leocadio, Hoarau, Galice
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Bioinfomatics
Climate Change
Hybridization
Systematics
Transcriptomics
Crustaceans
Phyloinfomatics
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Arctic
Atlantic-Arctic
Climate change
North Atlantic
Zooplankton
Copepods
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.59157
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n8f30
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Summary:Copepods of the genus Calanus are key zooplankton species in temperate to arctic marine ecosystems. Despite their ecological importance, species identification remains challenging. Furthermore, the recent report of hybrids among Calanus species highlights the need for diagnostic nuclear markers in order to efficiently identify parental species and hybrids. Using Next Generation Sequencing analysis of both the genome and transcriptome from two sibling species, C. finmarchichus and C. glacialis, we developed a panel of 12 nuclear insertion/deletion markers. All the markers showed species specific amplicon length. Furthermore most of the markers were successfully amplified in other Calanus species allowing the molecular identification of C. helgolandicus, C hyperboreus and C. marshallae.

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