Abstract Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828), one of the most destructive marine invaders, was reported from Mediterranean in 1991. It has invaded parts 2013, when it for second time, until today. On 7th October 2020, a single specimen P. collected by bottom trawl Edremit Bay (Northern Aegean Sea). COI barcode region used molecular identification specimen. DNA data suggest that present study is with ...

As part of efforts to identify native herbivores of Mexican palo verde, Parkinsonia aculeata L. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae), as potential biological control agents against this invasive weed in Australia, ten species of Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) were reared from Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela: Amorbia concavana (Zeller), Platynota rostrana (Walker), Platynota helianthes (Meyric...

BACKGROUND Cockroaches are of vital importance medically and hygienically as they can disperse human pathogenic agents and are especially responsible for food contamination and spreading of food borne pathogens. In this study, part of mtDNA-COI gene of five common pest cockroaches was tested for diagnostic and phylogenetic purposes. METHODS We have described barcode region of mtDNA-COI gene o...

This paper provides the first DNA sequences and phylogenetic insight into Central Asian genus Eodorcadion. We used four molecular markers (COI, CAD, ITS2, Histone 3) investigated COI genetic distances to verify position of closely related taxa endemic Mongolia ‘Eodorcadion intermedium species-group’. Histone3 data are presented for time Cerambycidae species. also designed new PCR primers better...

BACKGROUND The increasing availability of reference libraries of DNA barcodes (RLDB) offers the opportunity to the screen the level of consistency in DNA barcode data among libraries, in order to detect possible disagreements generated from taxonomic uncertainty or operational shortcomings. We propose a ranking system to attribute a confidence level to species identifications associated with DN...

Abstract The euphausiid genus Stylocheiron includes species with biogeographical distributions spanning multiple ocean basins. Despite their circumglobal distributions, the show low levels of genetic diversity and little or no evidence population structure based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) barcode region, exception a possible cryptic within affine. elongatum showed < 1% v...

A DNA barcode is a preferrably short and highly variable region of DNA supposed to facilitate a rapid identification of species. In many protistan lineages, a lack of species-specific morphological characters hampers an identification of species by light or electron microscopy, and difficulties to perform mating experiments in laboratory cultures also do not allow for an identification of biolo...

The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and the quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) are considered as the most competitive invaders in freshwaters of Europe and North America. Although shell characteristics exist to differentiate both species, phenotypic plasticity in the genus Dreissena does not always allow a clear identification. Therefore, the need to find an accurate identifica...

Although three species of the genus Macrourus are recognized in the Southern Ocean, DNA sequencing of the mitochondrial COI gene revealed four well-supported clades. These barcode data suggest the presence of an undescribed species, a conclusion supported by meristic and morphometric examination of specimens.