A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes

Erwan Delrieu-Trottin (1, 2, 3, 4) , Jeffrey Williams (5) , Diane Pitassy (5) , Amy Driskell (5) , Nicolas Hubert (1) , Jérémie Viviani (4, 6, 7, 2) , Thomas Cribb (8) , Benoit Espiau (9, 2) , René Galzin (9, 2) , Michel Kulbicki (9) , Thierry Lison de Loma (9, 2) , Christopher Meyer (5) , Johann Mourier (4, 10, 2) , Gérard Mou-Tham (4) , Valeriano Parravicini (2, 4) , Patrick Plantard (2, 4) , Pierre P. Sasal (4, 9) , Gilles Siu (9) , Nathalie Tolou , Michel Veuille (11) , Lee Weigt , Serge Planes (9)

1 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
2 PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
3 Leibniz Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung
4 LabEX CORAIL - Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL
5 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
6 IGFL - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon
7 Département de Biologie - ENS Paris
8 USQ - University of Southern Queensland
9 CRIOBE - Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement
10 UMR MARBEC - MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation
11 EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études

The emergence of DNA barcoding and metabarcoding opened new ways to study biological diversity, however, the completion of DNA barcode libraries is fundamental for such approaches to succeed. This dataset is a DNA barcode reference library (fragment of Cytochrome Oxydase I gene) for 2,190 specimens representing at least 540 species of shore fishes collected over 10 years at 154 sites across the four volcanic archipelagos of French Polynesia; the Austral, Gambier, Marquesas and Society Islands, a 5,000,000 km2 area. At present, 65% of the known shore fish species of these archipelagoes possess a DNA barcode associated with preserved, photographed, tissue sampled and cataloged specimens, and extensive collection locality data. This dataset represents one of the most comprehensive DNA barcoding efforts for a vertebrate fauna to date. Considering the challenges associated with the conservation of coral reef fishes and the difficulties of accurately identifying species using morphological characters, this publicly available library is expected to be helpful for both authorities and academics in various fields.

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Biodiversité et Ecologie

Erwan Delrieu-Trottin, Jeffrey Williams, Diane Pitassy, Amy Driskell, Nicolas Hubert, et al.. A DNA barcode reference library of French Polynesian shore fishes. Scientific Data , 2019, 6 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41597-019-0123-5⟩. ⟨hal-02375604⟩