DNA Barcoding of algae needs data transparency

In Organisms, Diversity & Evolution (Vol. 11, 2011) a new DNA Barcode for diatoms has been proposed. The original data researched at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem has been made available online within the GBIF Germany project, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research.

Jonas Zimmermann, Regine Jahn, and Birgit Gemeinholzer cite the primary biodiversity data, which is available via the AlgaTerra Information System and will be fed into the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (GBIF).

The DNA Barcode development at the BGBM began by a comparison between light microscopical and molecular data in identifying diatoms.

Hantzschia amphioxys (SEM, light microscopy). Photos: CC BY-SA 3.0 R. Jahn (BGBM).

Stephanodiscus minutulus (Light microscopy, SEM). Photos: CC BY-SA 3.0 R. Jahn (BGBM).

List of taxa

Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kütz.) Czarn.

Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenb.

Cocconeis placentula Ehrenb.

Cyclotella meneghiniana Kütz.

Diatoma tenuis C.Agardh

Encyonema minutum (Hilse) D.G.Mann

Encyonema silesiacum (Bleisch) D.G.Mann

Eolimna minima (Grunow) Lange-Bert.

Fragilaria mesolepta Rabenh.

Gomphonema parvulum Kütz.

Hantzschia amphioxys (Ehrenb.) Grunow

Mayamaea atomus var. permitis (Hust.) Lange-Bert.

Melosira varians C.Agardh

Navicula cryptocephala Kütz.

Navicula gregaria Donkin

Navicula slesvicensis Grunow

Navicula tripunctata (O.F.Müll.) Bory

Nitzschia acicularis (Kütz.) W.Sm.

Nitzschia cf. fonticola "strain D15_023"

Nitzschia cf. semirobusta "strain D32_012"

Nitzschia dissipata (Kütz.) Rabenh.

Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow

Nitzschia linearis (C.Agardh) W.Sm.

Nitzschia sigmoidea (Nitzsch) W.Sm.

Pinnularia divergens W.Sm.

Stauroneis phoenicenteron (Nitzsch) Ehrenb.

Stephanodiscus minutulus (Kütz.) Cleve & Möller

[W.-H. Kusber & R. Jahn, 8.11.2011]