| Title: |
Lack of local genetic representation in one of the regions with the highest bird species richness, the Peruvian Amazonia. |
| Authors: |
Arana, Alejandra, Arana, César, Watsa, Mrinalini, Tobler, Mathias W., Pacheco, Víctor, Esteves, Juan, Mena, José Luis, Salinas, Letty, Ramirez, Jorge L. |
| Source: |
PLoS ONE; 1/2/2024, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1-14, 14p |
| Subject Terms: |
SPECIES diversity, GENETIC databases, BIODIVERSITY monitoring, BIRD diversity, BIODIVERSITY conservation, SCIENTIFIC community, SPECIES |
| Geographic Terms: |
PERU |
| Abstract: |
Peru ranks among the three countries with the highest bird species diversity globally and a majority of those species are found in the Peruvian Amazon. However, birds in this area are currently facing serious anthropogenic threats. Genetic and genomic methods are becoming important tools for avian biodiversity monitoring and conservation planning. Comprehensive molecular libraries that are publicly available are key to the effective deployment of these tools. We analyze the information gaps for four molecular markers in the most important genetic sequence databases, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) and NCBI GenBank, for bird species of the Peruvian Amazonia. We found that 64% of Peruvian Amazonian bird species have gene sequences for COI, 59.5% have CYTB sequences, 16.4% have 12S sequences, and only 0.6% have 18S sequences. However, these numbers decrease drastically to 4.3% for COI sequences when we only consider specimens sampled in Peru. Our data also showed that 43.8% of Peruvian Amazonian endemic species (n = 32) are missing sequences of any screened marker uploaded to GenBank or BOLD. Our results will encourage and guide efforts of the scientific community to complete reference libraries for Peruvian avian species that will be useful for future DNA-based monitoring projects that include birds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Complementary Index |
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