Introducing the MetaZooGene Atlas and Database – Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)

Photos by R.R. Hopcroft and C. Clarke (UAF) and L.P. Madin (WHOI). See http://www.cmarz.org/galleries.html

The SCOR WG157 review paper introducing the MetaZooGene Atlas and Database (MZGdb):

has now been published open access:

Bucklin A, KTCA Peijnenburg, KN Kosobokova, TD O’Brien, L Blanco-Bercial, A Cornils, T Falkenhaug, RR Hopcroft, A Hosia, S Laakmann, C Li, L Martell, JM Questel, D Wall-Palmer, M Wang, PH Wiebe, A Weydmann-Zwolicka (2021) Toward a global reference database of COI barcodes for marine zooplankton. Marine Biology.

This review is a collaborative effort of the Scientific Committee for Ocean Research (SCOR) Working Group WG157: MetaZooGene.

The MetaZooGene Barcode Atlas and Database (MZGdb), includes >150,000 mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) sequences for ~5,600 described species of marine zooplankton.

The MZGdb is a reference database for identification of species from DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of pelagic biodiversity, with advanced search functions by ocean region and taxonomic group.