32. The Mitochondrial Genome
D-Loop
Small ribosomal RNA
Large
ribosomal RNA
Cyt b
ND1
ND6
ND5
L-strand
COI
COI
ND2
H-strand
ND4
COI
ND4L
ND3
COIII
COII
ATPase subunit 8
ATPase subunit 6
33. An actual fly
DNA barcode –
A 650-letter “word”
ACTTTATATTTTATTTTTGGAGCTTGATCTAGAATAATTGGAACTT
CTTTAAGAATATTAATTCGAATTGAATTAGGTCATCCAGGTTCCTT
AATTGGAAATGACCAAATTTATAATGTAATTGTAACAGCTCATGC
ATTTATTATAATTTTTTTTATAGTAATACCAATTATAATTGGAGGA
TTTGGAAATTGATTAGTTCCTTTAATATTAGGAGCACCAGATATAG
CTTTTCCTCGAATGAATAATATAAGTTTTTGACTTCTTCCTCCTGCT
TTAATACTTTTATTAACAAGTAGAATAGTAGAAAGTGGAGCTGGA
ACAGGATGAACAGTTTATCCTCCTTTATCATCTATTATTGCTCATG
GAGGAGCATCTGTTGACTTAGCTATTTTTTCTCTTCATTTAGCAGG
AATTTCTTCTATTTTAGGAGCTGTAAATTTTATTACAACTGTAATT
AATATACGATCTATTGGTATTACCTTTGATCGAATACCTTTATTTG
TTTGATCAGTTGCTATTACAGCCTTATTACTTTTATTATCTTTACCA
GTTTTAGCTGGAGCAATTACAATATTATTAACNGATCGAAATTTA
AATACATCATTTTTTG
34. We are talking about
GPS for biodiversity.
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Where is your specimen
in taxonomic space?
64. Asturodes fimbriauralis eats Colubrina (Rhamnaceae)
8% different in
DNA barcodes
rain forest
sympatric
Asturodes new species eats Gouania (Rhamnaceae)
68. U. belliDHJ01
U. belliDHJ02
U. belliDHJ03
Tropical submontane evergreen forest
Evergreen seasonal lowland forest
subtropical Rain – Cloud forest
Coastal rainforest
Lowland deciduous forest
Semi deciduous –deciduous forest
Lowland semi deciduous forest
Mangrove forest
Herbaceous marshes
Marshes and reed beds of typha
Open savanna grasses
Wooded savannah
Shrub vegetation with isolated clumps
Alluvial tropical rainforest vegetation
69. 16,000+ records of parasitic
flies (Tachinidae), 5% of all.
420 morphospecies of flies.
96% very specialized, but
16 generalists with names.
Monty Wood, taxonomist.
But, are they
generalists?
Barcode
16 species.
77. 640 new species of Costa Rican campoplegine parasitic wasps, all INBio and donors
186 new species of ACG braconid microgastrine parasitic wasps, all current ACG staff
800 new species of ACG tachinid parasitic flies, all current and past ACG staff & donors
78. ACG June 2013
What we thought we know, we don’t know. Use the new orca pictures. If time,
A second one of giraffes or elephants.
Everyone of us thinks we know the name;
none of 7 billion people do.
107. 2%
Of 9,000+ species
3 cases with nearly
identical barcodes
Adelpha
melanthe
Adelpha
phylaca
108. What we lack is
a program called “Know thy park”
conducted by the conserved wildland
itself
in collaboration with the national and
international community.
109. We have extraordinarily poor knowledge
and understanding of
what it is we are conserving,
what it does,
where it lives, and
how to find it when we want it -in the big disorderly green garden.
And we ask starving and stressed society
to pay the bill to conserve the garden?
