{"id":1406,"date":"2014-05-07T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-05-14T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T12:31:17","slug":"new-dna-barcoding-method-speeds-up-species-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-dna-barcoding-method-speeds-up-species-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"New DNA barcoding method speeds up species identification"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new method of DNA barcoding can provide an analysis of a single insect in the sample of insects collected in Costa Rica. In the background is the next generation MiSeq sequencer used in the study. (Credit : Mehrad Hajibabaei)<\/p><\/div>\n

A new DNA barcoding method will save money and time for researchers who wants to assess biodiversity in an ecosystem. The new method allowed researchers to correctly identify 92% of the 1,066 insects and spiders in a single analysis. They also were able to detect microbes associated with the insects and spiders. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous methods were labor-intensive and costly as each individual insect or spiders was analyzed individually. This next-generation DNA barcoding approach will be applicable to wide range of ecosystems and can further our understanding of ecology, evolution and biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0May 5, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mehrdad Hajibabaei,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0University of Guelph, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A new DNA barcoding method will save money and time for researchers who wants to assess biodiversity in an ecosystem. The new method allowed researchers to correctly identify 92% of the 1,066 insects and spiders in a single analysis. They also were able to detect microbes associated with the insects and spiders. \u00a0 Previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,113,1274,171,917,909,50],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-dna","tag-ecology","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-mG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}