The mitochondrial genomes of 11 aquatic macroinvertebrate species from Cyprus

By

Macher, Jan-Niklas
Drakou, Katerina
Papatheodoulou, Athina
Hoorn, Berry Van Der
Vasquez, Marlen

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-9-21

Original Publication

Metabarcoding and metagenomics

Volume

4

Pages

1--6

Subjects

Biodiversity hotspot , freshwater biodiversity , Insects , Mediterranean

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.4.58259

 

Abstract

Aquatic macroinvertebrates are often identified, based on morphology, but molecular approaches like DNA barcoding, metabarcoding and metagenomics are increasingly used for species identification. These approaches require the availability of DNA references deposited in public databases. Here we report the mitochondrial genomes of 11 aquatic macroinvertebrate species from Cyprus, a European Union island country in the Mediterranean. Only three species could be provisionally assigned to a binomial species name, highlighting the current lack of molecular references for aquatic macroinvertebrates from Cyprus.Graphical Abstract