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Prioritizing Taxa for Genetic Reference Database Development to Advance Inland Water Conservation by Marie-Eve Monchamp; Zofia E. Taranu; Rebecca E. Garner; Tessa Rehill; Olivier Morissette; Lars L. Iversen; Vincent Fugère; Joanne E. Littlefair; Naíla Barbosa da Costa; Jessica E. Desforges; Joe R. Sánchez Schacht; Alison M. Derry; Steven J. Cooke; Rowan D.H. Barrett; David A. Walsh; Jiannis Ragoussis; Monique Albert; Melania E. Cristescu; Irene Gregory-Eaves is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Biodiversity loss has accelerated over the past century and freshwater species overall are among those experiencing greatest declines. Genetic resources have the potential to help evaluate the full magnitude of this loss and represent a key tool to effectively allocate conservation resources and monitor the success of restoration efforts. The full power of genetic resources will be realized when the daunting task of referencing all DNA sequences of freshwater organisms is complete. Here, we quantified the availability and distribution of barcode and genome data for freshwater macroscopic organisms in Canada, a country rich in inland water resources and thus particularly vulnerable to aquatic species losses. Impressively, most inland water species (86 %) were represented by barcodes recorded in the BOLD Systems database, while very few had full genomes available (<4 %) in the NCBI database. We identified barcode data deficiencies in northern regions and for taxa assessed as most at risk or without sufficient information for conservation status classification. As expected, the speciose insect group had a lower-than-average number of records per species and a high proportion of data d

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Author

Marie-Eve Monchamp; Zofia E. Taranu; Rebecca E. Garner; Tessa Rehill; Olivier Morissette; Lars L. Iversen; Vincent Fugère; Joanne E. Littlefair; Naíla Barbosa da Costa; Jessica E. Desforges; Joe R. Sánchez Schacht; Alison M. Derry; Steven J. Cooke; Rowan D.H. Barrett; David A. Walsh; Jiannis Ragoussis; Monique Albert; Melania E. Cristescu; Irene Gregory-Eaves

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)