Abstract

Background

Marker gene surveys have a wide variety of applications in species identification, population genetics, and molecular epidemiology. As these methods expand to new types of organisms and additional markers beyond 16S and 18S rRNA genes, comprehensive databases are a critical requirement for proper analysis of these data.

Results

Here we present an ITS2 rDNA database for marker gene surveys of both free-living and parasitic nematode populations and the software used to build the database. This is currently the most complete and up-to-date ITS2 database for nematodes and is able to reproduce previous analysis that used a smaller database.

Conclusions

This database is an important resource for researchers working on nematodes and also provides a tool to create ITS2 databases for any given taxonomy.

Details

Title
A database for ITS2 sequences from nematodes
Author
Workentine, Matthew L; Chen, Rebecca; Zhu, Shawna; Gavriliuc, Stefan; Shaw, Nicolette; de Rijke, Jill; Redman, Elizabeth M; Avramenko, Russell W; Wit, Janneke; Poissant, Jocelyn; Gilleard, John S  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Pages
1-4
Section
Database
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
1471-2156
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00880-0
ProQuest document ID
2424739998
Copyright
© 2020. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.