Sponge Barcoding

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Comment by Gert Woerheide on November 29, 2010 at 4:07pm

oh, btw, if you are going to create a Cnidarian Barcode Project we are happy to share the database structure of the Sponge Barcoding Database if you want to use/adapt it - it has already been used in the tardigrade barcoding project...

Comment by Allen Collins on November 29, 2010 at 3:58pm

Frédéric, I think you could generate the barcode data yourself in the course of your cnidarian work (using COI primers from the Sponge Barcode Project website) or even 18S and I think that you will begin to get a pretty good idea of the identity of the host sponges. We could also do this for you as part of the Porifera Tree of Life project. We can discuss details off list, as well as the possibility of creating a Cnidarian Barcode Project.

Comment by Gert Woerheide on November 29, 2010 at 3:12pm

In principle yes, but we are processing several thousand samples in the framework of MarBOL at the moment and have currently all hands tied down and no free resources. Additionally we would like, if at all possible, morphological descriptions been done too. so maybe at a later stage...

Comment by Frederic Sinniger on November 29, 2010 at 1:51pm

Excellent! I wish we could develop the same for cnidarians (Allen, if you read this...). I will explore more in details the website as like said previously I got some samples from Madagascar, New Caledonia and Japan (mainly) and would be glad to have at least a vague idea of what they are to see if it may make a sense with the zoanthid associated. Would you be interested by such samples (only small fragment, but for the Japan ones, there should be no problem to get more)?

Comment by Gert Woerheide on November 29, 2010 at 1:00pm

Hi Frederic,
I completely agree. Feel free to stop by the Sponge Barcoding Project's website and hit the "Data" button, which will bring you to the Sponge Barcoding Database where you can browse a lot of info, also on morpho-taxonomic characters used to identify sponge species.

Comment by Frederic Sinniger on November 29, 2010 at 10:41am

Hello,

I am not a sponge guy, but I think many issues are shared between sponge and cnidarian barcoding. Moreover, lots of the zoanthids I study are tightly associated to sponge and an accessible way to somehow identify the "substrate sponge" would be more than welcome.

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