A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples

Jeremy R. deWaard; Sujeevan Ratnasingham; Evgeny V. Zakharov; Alex V. Borisenko; Dirk Steinke; Angela C. Telfer; Kate H. J. Perez; Jayme E. Sones; Monica R. Young; Valerie Levesque-Beaudin; Crystal N. Sobel; Arusyak Abrahamyan; Kyrylo Bessonov; Gergin Blagoev; Stephanie L. deWaard; Chris Ho; Natalia V. Ivanova; Kara K. S. Layton; Liuqiong Lu; Ramya Manjunath; Jaclyn T. A. McKeown; Megan A. Milton; Renee Miskie; Norm Monkhouse; Suresh Naik; Nadya Nikolova; Mikko Pentinsaari; Sean W. J. Prosser; Adriana E. Radulovici; Claudia Steinke; Connor P. Warne; Paul D. N. Hebert

doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0320-2

A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples

Jeremy R. deWaard, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Alex V. Borisenko, Dirk Steinke, Angela C. Telfer, Kate H. J. Perez, Jayme E. Sones, Monica R. Young, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Crystal N. Sobel, Arusyak Abrahamyan, Kyrylo Bessonov, Gergin Blagoev, Stephanie L. deWaard, Chris Ho, Natalia V. Ivanova, Kara K. S. Layton, Liuqiong Lu, Ramya ManjunathJaclyn T. A. McKeown, Megan A. Milton, Renee Miskie, Norm Monkhouse, Suresh Naik, Nadya Nikolova, Mikko Pentinsaari, Sean W. J. Prosser, Adriana E. Radulovici, Claudia Steinke, Connor P. Warne, Paul D. N. Hebert^*

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Abstract

The reliable taxonomic identification of organisms through DNA sequence data requires a well parameterized library of curated reference sequences. However, it is estimated that just 15% of described animal species are represented in public sequence repositories. To begin to address this deficiency, we provide DNA barcodes for 1,500,003 animal specimens collected from 23 terrestrial and aquatic ecozones at sites across Canada, a nation that comprises 7% of the planet's land surface. In total, 14 phyla, 43 classes, 163 orders, 1123 families, 6186 genera, and 64,264 Barcode Index Numbers (BINs; a proxy for species) are represented. Species-level taxonomy was available for 38% of the specimens, but higher proportions were assigned to a genus (69.5%) and a family (99.9%). Voucher specimens and DNA extracts are archived at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics where they are available for further research. The corresponding sequence and taxonomic data can be accessed through the Barcode of Life Data System, GenBank, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and the Global Genome Biodiversity Network Data Portal.

Original language	English
Article number	308
Number of pages	12
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	6
Early online date	6 Dec 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0320-2
Publication status	Published - 6 Dec 2019

Bibliographical note

The synthesis of this dataset was enabled by funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, from Genome Canada through Ontario Genomics, from NSERC, and from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in support of the International Barcode of Life project. It was also enabled by philanthropic support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and from Ann McCain Evans and Chris Evans. The release of the data on GGBN was supported by a GGBN – Global Genome Initiative Award and we thank G. Droege, L. Loo, K. Barker, and J. Coddington for their support. Our work depended heavily on the analytical capabilities of the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD, www.boldsystems.org). We also thank colleagues at the CBG for their support, including S. Adamowicz, S. Bateson, E. Berzitis, V. Breton, V. Campbell, A. Castillo, C. Christopoulos, J. Cossey, C. Gallant, J. Gleason, R. Gwiazdowski, M. Hajibabaei, R. Hanner, K. Hough, P. Janetta, A. Pawlowski, S. Pedersen, J. Robertson, D. Roes, K. Seidle, M. A. Smith, B. St. Jacques, A. Stoneham, J. Stahlhut, R. Tabone, J.Topan, S. Walker, and C. Wei. For bioblitz-related assistance, we are grateful to D. Ireland, D. Metsger, A. Guidotti, J. Quinn and other members of Bioblitz Canada and Ontario Bioblitz. For our work in Canada’s national parks, we thank S. Woodley and J. Waithaka for their lead role in organizing permits and for the many Parks Canada staff who facilitated specimen collections, including M. Allen, D. Amirault-Langlais, J. Bastick, C. Belanger, C. Bergman, J.-F. Bisaillon, S. Boyle, J. Bridgland, S. Butland, L. Cabrera, R. Chapman, J. Chisholm, B. Chruszcz, D. Crossland, H. Dempsey, N. Denommee, T. Dobbie, C. Drake, J. Feltham, A. Forshner, K. Forster, S. Frey, L. Gardiner, P. Giroux, T. Golumbia, D. Guedo, N. Guujaaw, S. Hairsine, E. Hansen, C. Harpur, S. Hayes, J. Hofman, S. Irwin, B. Johnston, V. Kafa, N. Kang, P. Langan, P. Lawn, M. Mahy, D. Masse, D. Mazerolle, C. McCarthy, I. McDonald, J. McIntosh, C. McKillop, V. Minelga, C. Ouimet, S. Parker, N. Perry, J. Piccin, A. Promaine, P. Roy, M. Savoie, D. Sigouin, P. Sinkins, R. Sissons, C. Smith, R. Smith, H. Stewart, G. Sundbo, D. Tate, R. Tompson, E. Tremblay, Y. Troutet, K. Tulk, J. Van Wieren, C. Vance, G. Walker, D. Whitaker, C. White, R. Wissink, C. Wong, and Y. Zharikov. For our work near Canada’s ports in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax, we thank R. Worcester, A. Chreston, M. Larrivee, and T. Zemlak, respectively. Many other organizations improved coverage in the reference library by providing access to specimens – they included the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the University of Guelph Insect Collection, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Pacifc Forestry Centre, the Northern Forestry Centre, the Lyman Entomological Museum, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, and rare Charitable Research Reserve. We also thank the many taxonomic specialists who identifed specimens, including A. Borkent, B. Brown, M. Buck, C. Carr, T. Ekrem, J. Fernandez Triana, C. Guppy, K. Heller, J. Huber, L. Jacobus, J. Kjaerandsen, J. Klimaszewski, D. Lafontaine, J-F. Landry, G. Martin, A. Nicolai, D. Porco, H. Proctor, D. Quicke, J. Savage, B. C. Schmidt, M. Sharkey, A. Smith, E. Stur, A. Tomas, J. Webb, N. Woodley, and X. Zhou. We also thank K. Kerr and T. Mason for facilitating collections at Toronto Zoo and D. Iles for servicing the trap at Wapusk National Park. This paper contributes to the University of Guelph’s Food from Thought research program supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

The Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD; www.boldsystems.org)8 was used as the primary workbench for creating, storing, analyzing, and validating the specimen and sequence records and the associated data resources48. The BOLD platform has a private, password-protected workbench for the steps from specimen data entry to data validation (see details in Data Records), and a public data portal for the release of data in various formats. The latter is accessible through an API (http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/resources/api?type=webservices) that can also be controlled through R75 with the package ‘bold’76.

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deWaard, J. R., Ratnasingham, S., Zakharov, E. V., Borisenko, A. V., Steinke, D., Telfer, A. C., Perez, K. H. J., Sones, J. E., Young, M. R., Levesque-Beaudin, V., Sobel, C. N., Abrahamyan, A., Bessonov, K., Blagoev, G., deWaard, S. L., Ho, C., Ivanova, N. V., Layton, K. K. S., Lu, L., ... Hebert, P. D. N. (2019). A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples. Scientific Data, 6, Article 308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0320-2

deWaard, JR, Ratnasingham, S, Zakharov, EV, Borisenko, AV, Steinke, D, Telfer, AC, Perez, KHJ, Sones, JE, Young, MR, Levesque-Beaudin, V, Sobel, CN, Abrahamyan, A, Bessonov, K, Blagoev, G, deWaard, SL, Ho, C, Ivanova, NV, Layton, KKS, Lu, L, Manjunath, R, McKeown, JTA, Milton, MA, Miskie, R, Monkhouse, N, Naik, S, Nikolova, N, Pentinsaari, M, Prosser, SWJ, Radulovici, AE, Steinke, C, Warne, CP & Hebert, PDN 2019, 'A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples', Scientific Data, vol. 6, 308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0320-2

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A reference library for Canadian invertebrates with 1.5 million barcodes, voucher specimens, and DNA samples

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