Category:
Pilot project
Acronym:
TAS_Halictus
Coordinator:
Gontran Sonet (RBINS)
JEMU partner:
JEMU team
Project summary:
Pilot project to develop a scalable multi-locus dataset for the phylogeny of bees of the genus Halictus.
Collaborations:
Alain Pauly and Jean-Luc Boevé, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium; Jelle Devalez, University of the Aegean, Department of Geography, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece.
Lab work progress:
Completed
Data analysis:
Completed
Starting date:
2014
Project status:
Completed
Output:
Peer reviewed paper:
- Sonet G, Pauly A, Nagy ZT, Virgilio M, Jordaens K, Van Houdt J, Worms S, De Meyer M, Backeljau T (2018) Using next-generation sequencing to improve DNA barcoding: lessons from a small-scale study of wild bee species (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), Apidologie, 49, 671 – 685.
Oral presentation in a conference:
Sonet, G., Pauly, A., Smitz, N., Virgilio, M., Nagy, Z.T., Jordaens, K., Molle, S., Backeljau, T. & De Meyer, M. 2015. High-throughput sequencing of PCR amplicons: a test to barcode a bee species-complex (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) and survey Wolbachia infections. Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference. Genome, 58(5): 283.