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    A Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern

    Authors
    Vanderheyden, A.
    Lombal, A.
    Meganck, K.
    Smitz, N.
    Backeljau, T.
    De Meyer, M.
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    Discipline
    Biological sciences
    Subject
    Invertebrates
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2022
    Publisher
    Leuven, Belgium
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    Description
    The Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern (BopCo) acts as a focal point for identifying biological materials upon request, by providing access to the expertise and infrastructure necessary to identify organisms of policy concern and their derived products. BopCo s identification service is available to all stakeholders who deal with such material and who need accurate identifications. These can rely on traditional morphology based approaches employing the taxonomic expertise and specimen collections at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and/or on DNA-based techniques like DNA barcoding, qPCR, RFLP, RADP, µsatellites or MinION sequencing technology for which BopCo has access to fully equipped DNA laboratories at both RBINS and RMCA. A prerequisite to use DNA-based techniques, however, is the availability of comprehensive and reliable reference barcode libraries. Therefore, BopCo also contributes to populating DNA barcode databases of taxa of policy concern by producing new DNA barcodes, which are made publicly available, and evaluates existing DNA barcodes for their utility. Examples displaying the taxonomic diversity, stakeholder range, policy concern issues and utilised techniques will be presented.
    Citation
    Vanderheyden, A.; Lombal, A.; Meganck, K.; Smitz, N.; Backeljau, T.; De Meyer, M. (2022). A Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern. , Benelux Congress of Zoology 2022 - Diversity of model organisms and model organisms from diversity, Leuven, Belgium,
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/12969
    Type
    Conference
    Peer-Review
    No
    Language
    eng
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