AquaBOL.SK

 

Barcoding aquatic biota of slovakia

AquaBOL.SK is a scientific biodiversity initiative of experts on aquatic ecosystems focused on DNA barcoding of aquatic organisms living in Slovakia. The main mission and long-term goal of the initiative is to record and identify genetic diversity and to create an exhaustive library of standardized DNA sequences (DNA barcodes) of all aquatic species from all types of aquatic habitats in Slovakia and access the data in the Barcoding of Life Data System (BOLD) database.

AQUABOL.SK in the COVID year 2020

AQUABOL.SK in the COVID year 2020

Despite the fact that basically the whole year 2020 was deformed by lockdowns and homeoffice caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the AquaBOL team fortunately remained safe and tried to be active 🙂 During the year, we...

The first environmental DNA sampling in the Tatra alpine lakes

The first environmental DNA sampling in the Tatra alpine lakes

In September (fortunately with nice weather), our AquaBOL team went through another series of interesting, and this time also really innovative field work focused on sampling alpine lakes in the Tatra Mountains, during which we again met with colleagues from...

AquaBOL.SK

associates scientific institutions, professionals, taxonomic specialists and enthusiasts contributing to the building a reference library of DNA barcodes for aquatic fauna and flora species occurring in Slovakia – a biodiversity “hot-spot” in the heart of Europe. The purpose of this initiative is to promote the use of modern molecular methods in assessing biodiversity and the ecological state of our waters.

AquaBOL.SK

is trying to fulfill a global mission of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) project and support the main ideas of COST Action DNAqua-Net. The data acquired is published in a publicly available database Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD).

DNA barcodes

exactly this number of standardized COI mtDNA fragments (DNA barcodes) of aquatic invertebrates we have obtained by the end of 2021

BINs

this numer of molecular taxonomic units – BINs (in terms of the BOLD database) they created

species

and that much species of aquatic invertebrates they represent

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which is about this proportion of aquatic macroinvertebrate species living in Slovakia

4th CESAMIR 2024

july 7-12, Stará Lesná, Slovakia

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