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The most commonly used barcode region for animals and some protists is found in mtDNA, a segment 658 base pair portion of the cytochrome oxidase I (COI or COX1) gene. In plants, the cytochrome c oxidase I gene evolves too slowly to be of value for barcoding, so rbcL and others are used instead.^[3] The Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rRNA gene is often used to create barcodes for fungi and more recently in plants.^[4]^[5] Barcoding of protists is challenging, as documented by Pawlowski et al., 2012.^[5]

Applications of DNA barcoding include: identifying plant leaves even when flowers or fruit are not available, identifying pollen collected on the bodies of pollinating animals, identifying insect larvae (which may have fewer diagnostic characters than adults and are frequently less well-known), identifying the diet of an animal based on its stomach contents or faeces^[6] and identifying products in commerce (for example, herbal supplements, wood, or skins and other animal parts).^[8]

Background

DNA barcoding was proposed as a standardized method for identifying species, as well as potentially allocating unknown sequences to higher taxa such as orders and phyla, in a 2003 paper by Paul D.N. Hebert et al. from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Hebert and his colleagues demonstrated the utility of the cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) gene, first utilized by Folmer et al. in 1994, using their published DNA primers as a tool for phylogenetic analyses at the species levels,^[7] as a suitable discriminatory tool between metazoans.^[1] The study authors created a COI "profile" for eight of the most diverse orders of insects, based on a single representative from each of 100 different families, and showed that this profile assigned each of 50 newly analysed taxa to its correct order; they then created a COI profile for 200 closely allied species of the insect order Lepidoptera, and employed the method to successfully assign 150 newly analysed individuals to species.

Calling the profiles "barcodes", Hebert et al. envisaged the development of a COI database that could serve as the basis for a "global bioidentification system", and wrote: "When fully developed, a COI identification system will provide a reliable, cost-effective and accessible solution to the current problem of species identification. Its assembly will also generate important new insights into the diversification of life and the rules of molecular evolution."^[1]

The "Folmer region" of the COI gene is commonly used to distinction taxa based on its patterns of variation at the DNA level, the relative ease of retrieving the sequence, and variability mixed with conservation between species.^[8] Global DNA barcoding was initially regarded as a "big science" programme^[9] and even as the renaissance of taxonomy.^[14]

Global activities in DNA Barcoding are coordinated by the International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL). The primary analytical unit for the iBOL consortium is the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB) having generated over 75% of all available DNA barcode records^[10] while the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)^[11], their primary Informatics unit, contains nearly 6.6M barcode sequences representing over 600K BINs (proxy for species^[12]) of animals, plants, and fungi, and NCBI. Both these units are housed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Methodology

Barcoding Metazoans

DNA barcoding of animals is based on a relatively simple concept. All eukaryote cells contain mitochondria, and animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has a relatively fast mutation rate, resulting in the generation of diversity within and between populations over relatively short evolutionary timescales (thousands of generations). Typically, in animals, a single mtDNA genome is transmitted to offspring by each breeding female, and the genetic effective population size is proportional to the number of breeding females. This contrasts with the nuclear genome, which is around 100 000 times larger, where males and females each contribute two full genomes to the gene pool and effective size is therefore proportional to twice the total population size. This reduction in effective population size leads to more rapid sorting of mtDNA gene lineages within and among populations through time, due to variance in fecundity among individuals (the principle of coalescence). The combined effect of higher mutation rates and more rapid sorting of variation usually results in divergence of mtDNA sequences among species and a comparatively small variance within species. Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COX1/COI) is the main barcode used since 2003.^[13]

The barcoding for animals all began with insects. In a follow-up paper to his initial 2003 paper, Hebert and different co-authors tested COI differences in congeneric species pairs (2,238 species) from 11 phyla of animals plus the four dominant orders of insects (Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera) as well as "other insects" and concluded that species level discrimination was satisfactory using the proposed COI gene region in all the groups studied with the exception of Cnidaria, which they ascribed to the exceptionally low rates of mitochondrial evolution in the latter group.^[14] Since, success has been found barcoding field and museum specimens alike, such as in the Zahiri et al. (2014) study of 1541 species of Canadian Noctuoidea (^[15]Lepidoptera). Genetic identification of aquatic insects, especially Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, and Plecoptera, have been successful and are useful to distinguish subtleties among immature forms of each family as well as for to aid in bioassessment.^[16] Barcoding of insects and other organisms have significant potential as conservation, biodiversity, and broad environmental tools.^[17]

Exceptions, where mtDNA fails as a test of species identity, can occur through occasional recombination (direct evidence for recombination in mtDNA is available in some bivalves such as Mytilus^[18] but it is suspected that it may be more widespread^[19]) and through occurrences of hybridization.^[20] Male-killing microorganisms,^[21] cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing symbionts (e.g., Wolbachia^[21]), as well as heteroplasmy, may affect patterns of mtDNA diversity within species, although these do not necessarily result in barcoding failure. Occasional horizontal gene transfer (such as via cellular symbionts^[22]), or other "reticulate" evolutionary phenomena in a lineage can lead to misleading results (i.e., it is possible for two different species to share mtDNA). In particular, mtDNA seems to be particularly prone to interspecific introgression ^[23] probably due to difference between sexes in mate-choice and dispersal. Additionally, some species may carry divergent mtDNA lineages segregating within populations, often due to historical geographic structure, where these divergent lineages do not reflect species boundaries.^[24]^[25]

A 2017 study by Rach et al. on Odonates, specifically dragonflies (Anisoptera) and the damselflies (Zygoptera), a basal group of insects, found that the "standard" (Folmer) region of the COI gene was sub-optimal for species resolution in that group, and that a different portion of the same gene, which they termed COIB, showed higher success in discriminating sister taxa at different taxonomic levels.^[26] These authors therefore suggested that a layered barcode approach, i.e. adding additional markers to enhance the discrimination potential in metabarcoding studies where the taxonomic composition within the samples may not be known in advance.

In Cnidaria, where the COI gene has been found to be unsuitable on account of its slow rate of evolution in that group, more success has been reported using a combination of COI plus a short, adjacent intergenic region (igr1) plus a fragment of the octocoral‐specific mitochondrial protein‐coding gene, msh1 in octocorals,^[27] and the 16S mitochondrial ribosomal RNA gene in pelagic forms.^[28] In sponges, the other major non-Bilaterian animal group, congeneric species are difficult to amplify or separate with the standard COI barcoding fragment, and data compilation and study is presently focussed on the ribosomal RNA 28S C-Region.^[29]

Barcoding flowering plants

The use of the COI sequence is not appropriate in plants because of slower rate of cytochrome c oxidase I gene evolution in higher plants than in animals.^[30] A series of experiments was conducted to find a more suitable region of the genome for use in the DNA barcoding of flowering plants (or the larger group of land plants).^[31]

Many chloroplast sequences or their combinations have been proposed as a barcode, including the trnH-psbA intergenic region^[30] and the rbcL + matK combination.^[32] Adding the nuclear internal transcribed spacer 2 (nrITS2) region was proposed to provide better resolution between species.^[33] The chloroplast gene ycf1 may be a more suitable source of variable regions.^[34]

Barcoding fungi

As noted above, the current, officially approved barcoding locus for fungi is the ITS region, chosen from a group of six candidates (SSU, LSU, ITS, RPB1, RPB2, MCM7) as the most broadly applicable across major fungal lineages. However, the ITS region has been noted as not working well in some highly speciose genera such as Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Penicillium and Trichoderma, since these taxa have narrow or no barcode gaps in their ITS regions; it may therefore be necessary to sequence one or more single-copy protein-coding genes as a secondary barcode marker for certain fungal genera and/or lineages in order to obtain the most precise identifications at the species level.^[35] Stielow et al. (2015) also discuss the applicability of a number of potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes including TEF1α, TOPI, PGK and LNS2 in particular groups.^[36]

Barcoding protists

Vouchered specimens

DNA sequence databases like GenBank contain many sequences that are not tied to vouchered specimens (for example, herbarium specimens, cultured cell lines, or sometimes images). This is problematic in the face of taxonomic issues such as whether several species should be split or combined, or whether past identifications were sound. Therefore, best practice for DNA barcoding is to sequence vouchered specimens.^[45]^[37]

Case studies

Identification of birds

In an effort to find a relationship between traditional species boundaries established by taxonomy and those inferred by DNA barcoding, Hebert and co-workers sequenced DNA barcodes of 260 of the 667 bird species that breed in North America (Hebert et al. 2004a^[38]). They found that every single one of the 260 species had a different COI sequence. 130 species were represented by two or more specimens; in all of these species, COI sequences were either identical or were most similar to sequences of the same species. COI variations between species averaged 7.93%, whereas variation within species averaged 0.43%. In four cases there were deep intraspecific divergences, indicating possible new species. Three out of these four polytypic species are already split into two by some taxonomists. Hebert et al.'s (2004a^[38]) results reinforce these views and strengthen the case for DNA barcoding. Hebert et al. also proposed a standard sequence threshold to define new species, this threshold, the so-called "barcoding gap", was defined as 10 times the mean intraspecific variation for the group under study.

Identification of fish

The Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL),^[39] is a global effort to coordinate the assembly of a standardised DNA barcode library for all fish species, one that is derived from voucher specimens with authoritative taxonomic identifications.^[40] The benefits of barcoding fishes include facilitating species identification for all potential users, including taxonomists; highlighting specimens that represent a range expansion of known species; flagging previously unrecognized species; and perhaps most importantly, enabling identifications where traditional methods are not applicable. An example is the possible identification of groupers causing Ciguatera fish poisoning from meal remnants.^[41]

Since its inception in 2005 FISH-BOL has been creating a valuable public resource in the form of an electronic database containing DNA barcodes for almost 10000 species, images, and geospatial coordinates of examined specimens.^[42] The database contains linkages to voucher specimens, information on species distributions, nomenclature, authoritative taxonomic information, collateral natural history information and literature citations. FISH-BOL thus complements and enhances existing information resources, including the Catalog of Fishes, FishBase and various genomics databases .

Delimiting cryptic species

The next major study into the efficacy of DNA barcoding was focused on the neotropical skipper butterfly, Astraptes fulgerator at the Area de Conservación de Guanacaste (ACG) in north-western Costa Rica. This species was already known as a cryptic species complex, due to subtle morphological differences, as well as an unusually large variety of caterpillar food plants. However, several years would have been required for taxonomists to completely delimit species. Hebert et al. (2004b^[43]) sequenced the COI gene of 484 specimens from the ACG. This sample included "at least 20 individuals reared from each species of food plant, extremes and intermediates of adult and caterpillar color variation, and representatives" from the three major ecosystems where Astraptes fulgerator is found. Hebert et al. (2004b^[43]) concluded that Astraptes fulgerator consists of 10 different species in north-western Costa Rica. These results, however, were subsequently challenged by Brower (2006^[44]), who pointed out numerous serious flaws in the analysis, and concluded that the original data could support no more than the possibility of three to seven cryptic taxa rather than ten cryptic species. This highlights that the results of DNA barcoding analyses can be dependent upon the choice of analytical methods used by the investigators, so the process of delimiting cryptic species using DNA barcodes can be as subjective as any other form of taxonomy.

A more recent example used DNA barcoding for the identification of cryptic species included in the ongoing long-term database of tropical caterpillar life generated by Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs in Costa Rica at the ACG.^[45] In 2006 Smith et al.^[46] examined whether a COI DNA barcode could function as a tool for identification and discovery for the 20 morphospecies of Belvosia [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=650659] parasitoid flies (Tachinidae) that have been reared from caterpillars in ACG. Barcoding not only discriminated among all 17 highly host-specific morphospecies of ACG Belvosia, but it also suggested that the species count could be as high as 32 by indicating that each of the three generalist species might actually be arrays of highly host-specific cryptic species.

In 2007 Smith et al. expanded on these results by barcoding 2,134 flies belonging to what appeared to be the 16 most generalist of the ACG tachinid morphospecies.^[47] They encountered 73 mitochondrial lineages separated by an average of 4% sequence divergence and, as these lineages are supported by collateral ecological information, and, where tested, by independent nuclear markers (28S and ITS1), the authors therefore viewed these lineages as provisional species. Each of the 16 initially apparent generalist species were categorized into one of four patterns: (i) a single generalist species, (ii) a pair of morphologically cryptic generalist species, (iii) a complex of specialist species plus a generalist, or (iv) a complex of specialists with no remaining generalist. In sum, there remained 9 generalist species classified among the 73 mitochondrial lineages analyzed.

However, also in 2007, Whitworth et al. reported that flies in the related family Calliphoridae could not be discriminated by barcoding.^[24] They investigated the performance of barcoding in the fly genus Protocalliphora, known to be infected with the endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia. Assignment of unknown individuals to species was impossible for 60% of the species, and if the technique had been applied, as in the previous study, to identify new species, it would have underestimated the species number in the genus by 75%. They attributed the failure of barcoding to the non-monophyly of many of the species at the mitochondrial level; in one case, individuals from four different species had identical barcodes. The authors went on to state: {{quote|The pattern of Wolbachia infection strongly suggests that the lack of within-species monophyly results from introgressive hybridization associated with Wolbachia infection. Given that Wolbachia is known to infect between 15 and 75% of insect species, we conclude that identification at the species level based on mitochondrial sequence might not be possible for many insects.^[24]}}

Mwabvu et al. (2013) observed a high level of divergence (19.09% for CO1, 520 base pairs) between two morphologically indistinguishable populations of Bicoxidens flavicollis millipedes in Zimbabwe, and suggested the presence of cryptic species in Bicoxidens flavicollis.^[48]

Marine biologists have also considered the value of the technique in identifying cryptic and polymorphic species and have suggested that the technique may be helpful when associations with voucher specimens are maintained,^[49] though cases of "shared barcodes" (e.g., non-unique) have been documented in cichlid fishes and cowries^[25]

Cataloguing ancient life

Lambert et al. (2005^[50]) examined the possibility of using DNA barcoding to assess the past diversity of the Earth's biota. The COI gene of a group of extinct ratite birds, the moa, were sequenced using 26 subfossil moa bones. As with Hebert's results, each species sequenced had a unique barcode and intraspecific COI sequence variance ranged from 0 to 1.24%. To determine new species, a standard sequence threshold of 2.7% COI sequence difference was set. This value is 10 times the average intraspecies difference of North American birds, which is inconsistent with Hebert's recommendation that the threshold value be based on the group under study. Using this value, the group detected six moa species. In addition, a further standard sequence threshold of 1.24% was also used. This value resulted in 10 moa species which corresponded with the previously known species with one exception. This exception suggested a possible complex of species which was previously unidentified. Given the slow rate of growth and reproduction of moa, it is probable that the interspecies variation is rather low. On the other hand, there is no set value of molecular difference at which populations can be assumed to have irrevocably started to undergo speciation. It is safe to say, however, that the 2.7% COI sequence difference initially used was far too high.

The Moorea Biocode Project

The Moorea Biocode Project was a barcoding initiative in 2008 - 2010 to create the first comprehensive inventory of all non-microbial life in a complex tropical ecosystem, the island of Moorea in Tahiti. Supported by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Moorea Biocode Project 3-year project brought together researchers from the Smithsonian Institution, UC Berkeley, France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and other partners. The outcome of the project was a library of genetic markers and physical identifiers for every species of plant, animal and fungi on the island that is provided as a publicly available database resource for ecologists and evolutionary biologists around the world.

The software back-end to the Moore Biocode Project is Geneious Pro and two custom-developed plugins from the New Zealand-based company, Biomatters. The Biocode LIMS and Genbank Submission plugins have been made freely available to the public^[51] and users of the free Geneious Basic software should be able to access and view the Biocode database, while a commercial copy of Geneious Pro was required for researchers involved in data creation and analysis.

Initial criticism and current status

In the initial years following its proposal, DNA barcoding met with spirited reaction from scientists, especially systematists, ranging from enthusiastic endorsement to vociferous opposition.^[52]^[53] For example, some stressed the fact that DNA barcoding does not provide reliable information above the species level{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}, while others opined that it was inapplicable at the species level, but may still have merit for higher-level groups.^[24] Others resented what they saw as a gross oversimplification of the science of taxonomy. And, more practically, some suggested that recently diverged species might not be distinguishable on the basis of their COI sequences.^[54] In an early study, Funk & Omland (2003^[55]) found that some 23% of animal species were polyphyletic if their mtDNA data were accurate, indicating that using an mtDNA barcode to assign a species name to an animal would be ambiguous or erroneous in those cases (see also Meyer & Paulay, 2005^[56]). Some studies with insects suggested an equal or even greater error rate, due to the frequent lack of correlation between the mitochondrial genome and the nuclear genome or the lack of a barcoding gap (e.g., Hurst and Jiggins, 2005,^[22] Whitworth et al., 2007,^[24] Wiemers & Fiedler, 2007^[57]).

Moritz and Cicero (2004^[58]) questioned the efficacy of DNA barcoding by suggesting that other avian data is inconsistent with Hebert et al.'s interpretation, namely, Johnson and Cicero's (2004^[59]) finding that 74% of sister species comparisons fall below the 2.7% threshold suggested by Hebert et al. These criticisms are somewhat misleading considering that, of the 39 species comparisons reported by Johnson and Cicero, only 8 actually use COI data to arrive at their conclusions. Johnson and Cicero (2004^[59]) have also claimed to have detected bird species with identical DNA barcodes, however, these 'barcodes' refer to an unpublished 723-bp sequence of ND6 which has never been suggested as a likely candidate for DNA barcoding.

The criticisms given above date from the first few years following Hebert's initial (2003) papers in which the method was proposed. Writing in 2016, with 13 years elapsed since their initial proposal, Hebert and co-workers wrote:

As noted above, the current status of barcoding for vascular plants is presently both less settled and less effective than for animals. In a recent study covering most (96%) of the 5108 vascular plant species known from Canada, the three barcode markers tested (matK, ITS2 and rbcL) were all effective at discriminating genera (98%, 97% and 91%, respectively); at species level, matK delivered the highest discrimination (81%) followed by ITS2 (72%) and rbcL (44%), however the effectiveness of matK was also variable by biogeographic region, varying from 69%-87% according to the geographic origin of the plants concerned. Resolution also varied by family, with the poorest species discrimination within Canadian species of Salicaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae.^[62] The authors of this study did not report on the combined efficacy of either any two, or all three markers, in part due to sampling limitations, but commented that although ITS2 showed slightly lower performance, it had two important advantages (its short length making it suitable for high-throughput sequencing (HTS)-based applications, and it is readily recovered from diverse taxa, including vascular plants and fungi), and looked forward to the development of more comprehensive reference libraries of both matK and ITS2 to further assist in the identification of unknown samples.

Software

Software for DNA barcoding requires integration of a field information management system (FIMS), laboratory information management system (LIMS), sequence analysis tools, workflow tracking to connect field data and laboratory data, database submission tools and pipeline automation for scaling up to eco-system scale projects. Geneious Pro can be used for the sequence analysis components, and the two plugins made freely available through the Moorea Biocode Project, the Biocode LIMS and Genbank Submission plugins handle integration with the FIMS, the LIMS, workflow tracking and database submission.

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) is a web based workbench and database supporting the acquisition, storage, analysis, and publication of DNA barcode records. By assembling molecular, morphological, and distributional data, it bridges a traditional bioinformatics chasm. BOLD is the most prominently used barcoding software and is freely available to any researcher with interests in DNA barcoding. By providing specialized services, it aids the assembly of records that meet the standards needed to gain BARCODE designation in the global sequence databases. Because of its web-based delivery and flexible data security model, it is also well positioned to support projects that involve broad research alliances.

See also

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