Category:
Pilot project
Acronym:
DBCLTC
Coordinator:
Jos Snoeks (RMCA)
JEMU partner:
Floris C. Breman, Jeroen Van Houdt
Project summary:
Cichlid fishes are much studied, but despite this the taxonomy remains unstable and many species await description. Hybridisation and incomplete lineage sorting are expected to affect the succes rate of DNA barcoding with mt-genes.
The project aims at establishing a DNA barcoding database for the cichlid fauna of Lake Tanganyika (LT). DNA barcodes will be analysed to establish if DNA barcoding is a usefull tool for identifying LT cichlid fishes.
Collaborations:
Maarten VanSteenbergen (KUL/RMCA), Sara Loix (MSc student KUL)
Lab work progress:
DNA extracted, sequencing finsished. A total of 401 sequences has been sequenced representing 99 morphospecies.
Starting date:
1st January 2010
Project status:
Completed
