Pollen identification by its2 metabarcoding: curation of the sequences retrieved from genbank to build a reference database

Quaresma, Andreia; Keller, Alexander; Rufino, José; Steen, Jozef van der; Pinto, M. Alice

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A powerful way of studying the quality of the environment is by examining the pollen collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) as it contains information on available plant sources, spatial and temporal floral diversity, as well as on chemical contaminants. This entails botanical identification of pollen which has typically been addressed by classical palynology, a costly approach that often provides low taxonomic resolution, is time-consuming, labour intensive, and requires plant taxonomy expertise

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Pollen DNA metabarcoding ITS2 database curation Honeybee

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http://hdl.handle.net/10198/28380

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Quaresma, Andreia; Keller, Alexander; Rufino, José; Van der Steen, Jozef; Pinto, M. Alice (2022). Pollen identification by its2 metabarcoding: curation of the sequences retrieved from genbank to build a reference database. In EurBee 9 - 9th European Congress of Apidology. Belgrade, Serbia