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High-throughput monitoring of wild bee diversity and abundance via mitogenomics

Tang, Min, Hardman, Chloe J., Ji, Yinqiu, Meng, Guanliang, Liu, Shanlin, Tan, Meihua, Yang, Shenzhou, Moss, Ellen D., Wang, Jingxin, Yang, Chenxue, Bruce, Catharine, Nevard, Timothy, Potts, Simon G., Zhou, Xin and Yu, Douglas W. (2015). High-throughput monitoring of wild bee diversity and abundance via mitogenomics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution,6(9):1034-1043.

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Title High-throughput monitoring of wild bee diversity and abundance via mitogenomics
Author Tang, Min
Hardman, Chloe J.
Ji, Yinqiu
Meng, Guanliang
Liu, Shanlin
Tan, Meihua
Yang, Shenzhou
Moss, Ellen D.
Wang, Jingxin
Yang, Chenxue
Bruce, Catharine
Nevard, Timothy
Potts, Simon G.
Zhou, Xin
Yu, Douglas W.
Journal Name Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Publication Date 2015
Volume Number 6
Issue Number 9
ISSN 2041-210X   (check CDU catalogue open catalogue search in new window)
Scopus ID 2-s2.0-84941808021
Start Page 1034
End Page 1043
Total Pages 10
Place of Publication United Kingdom
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Field of Research ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
HERDC Category C1 - Journal Article (DIISR)
Abstract 1. Bee populations and other pollinators face multiple, synergistically acting threats, which have led to population declines, loss of local species richness and pollination services, and extinctions. However, our understanding of the degree, distribution and causes of declines is patchy, in part due to inadequate monitoring systems, with the challenge of taxonomic identification posing a major logistical barrier. Pollinator conservation would benefit from a high-throughput identification pipeline.

2. We show that the metagenomic mining and resequencing of mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomics) can be applied successfully to bulk samples of wild bees. We assembled the mitogenomes of 48 UK bee species and then shotgun-sequenced total DNA extracted from 204 whole bees that had been collected in 10 pan-trap samples from farms in England and been identified morphologically to 33 species. Each sample data set was mapped against the 48 reference mitogenomes.

3. The morphological and mitogenomic data sets were highly congruent. Out of 63 total species detections in the morphological data set, the mitogenomic data set made 59 correct detections (93·7% detection rate) and detected six more species (putative false positives). Direct inspection and an analysis with species-specific primers suggested that these putative false positives were most likely due to incorrect morphological IDs. Read frequency significantly predicted species biomass frequency (R2 = 24·9%). Species lists, biomass frequencies, extrapolated species richness and community structure were recovered with less error than in a metabarcoding pipeline.

4. Mitogenomics automates the onerous task of taxonomic identification, even for cryptic species, allowing the tracking of changes in species richness and distributions. A mitogenomic pipeline should thus be able to contain costs, maintain consistently high-quality data over long time series, incorporate retrospective taxonomic revisions and provide an auditable evidence trail. Mitogenomic data sets also provide estimates of species counts within samples and thus have potential for tracking population trajectories.
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12416   (check subscription with CDU E-Gateway service for CDU Staff and Students  check subscription with CDU E-Gateway in new window)
 
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