Document of bibliographic reference 404677

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Bibliographic resource

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Journal article

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Title

BFR2: a curated ribosomal reference dataset for benthic foraminifera

Abstract

Benthic foraminifera are one of the major groups of marine protists that also occur in freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are widely used to monitor current and past environmental conditions. Over the last three decades, thousands of DNA sequences have been obtained from benthic foraminiferal isolates. The results of this long-term effort are compiled here in the form of the first curated benthic foraminiferal ribosomal reference dataset (BFR2). The present dataset contains over 5000 sequences of a fragment of the 18S rDNA gene, which is recognized as the DNA barcode of foraminifera. The sequences represent 279 species and 204 genera belonging to 91 families. Thirteen percent of these sequences have not been assigned to any morphologically described group and may represent species new to science. Furthermore, forty-five percent of the sequences have not been previously published. The BFR² dataset aims to collect all DNA barcodes of benthic foraminifera and to provide a much-needed reference dataset for the rapidly developing field of molecular foraminiferal studies.

Bibliographic citation

Holzmann, M.; Nguyen, N.-L.; Angeles, I.B.; Pawlowski, J. (2024). BFR2: a curated ribosomal reference dataset for benthic foraminifera. Scientific Data 11(1): 1292. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04137-8

Topic

Marine

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true

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open access

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true