BopCo: The Belgian barcoding facility for organisms and tissues of policy concern
| dc.contributor.author | Segers, B. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vanderheyden, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Smitz, N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kratz, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vanden Abeele, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Breugelmans, K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hendrickx, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Backeljau, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Meyer, M. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Europe | |
| dc.date | 2024 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-05T14:24:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-05T14:24:50Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/13868 | |
| dc.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 species identifications. These can rely on (i) 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 (ii) on DNA-based techniques like DNA-barcoding, qPCR, RFLP, eDNA, microsatellites or third generation sequencing technologies for which BopCo has access to fully equipped laboratories at both RBINS and RMCA. A prerequisite to using DNA-based techniques, however, is the availability of comprehensive and reliable reference barcode libraries. Therefore, BopCo also contributes to improving 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. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Bélem, Brazil | |
| dc.title | BopCo: The Belgian barcoding facility for organisms and tissues of policy concern | |
| dc.type | Conference | |
| dc.subject.frascati | Biological sciences | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | |
| dc.subject.free | Invertebrates | |
| dc.source.title | 9th International Barcode of Life Conference | |
| dc.source.page | 114-115 | |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | No | |
| dc.identifier.rmca | 6759 |
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