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Institution/Organization: University of Guelph

Title/Position: Researcher/Faculty member

Website: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~salex

I’m involved in, or am interested in the following barcoding initiatives: DNA Barcoding Initiative for Conservation

I’m involved in or interested in the following iBOL Working Groups: WG1.5 Agricultural and Forestry Pests and Their Parasitoids, WG1.9 Terrestrial Bio-Surveillance, WG1.10 Polar Life, WG2.2 Museum Life, WG4.1 Environmental Barcoding

Keywords about my barcoding projects (separate each choice with a comma): Formicidae, community ecology, evolution, taxonomy, systematics, parasitoid, co-evolution, co-diversification, food web, endosymbiont,

I’m involved in the following aspects of barcoding:: Fieldwork/specimen collecting, Museum work/specimen curation, Labwork/generating barcode sequences, Management of barcode data, Analysis of barcode data, Using barcode data in taxonomy/systematic biology, Using barcode data for other applications, Organizing/managing barcoding projects

M. Alex Smith's Blog

Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects

A paper that myself and 28 co-authors have been working on for the past several years, “Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects: Patterns, Potential, and Problems” came out late last week in PLoSONE (7(5): e36514). In it, we examine the extent to which COI sequences from Wolbachia can be detected in routine insect DNA barcoding. We further assessed the impact of Wolbachia upon…

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