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Article

DNA Barcodes Applied to a Rapid Baseline Construction in Biodiversity Monitoring for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Sian Ka’an Reserve (Mexico) and Adjacent Areas

by
Martha Valdez-Moreno
1,
Manuel Mendoza-Carranza
2,
Eduardo Rendón-Hernández
3,
Erika Alarcón-Chavira
3 and
Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez
1,*
1
Departamento de Sistemática y Ecología Acuática, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Av. Centenario Km 5.5, Chetumal 77014, Quintana Roo, Mexico
2
Departamento de Ciencias de la Sustentabilidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera a Reforma Km 15.5, Villahermosa 86280, Tabasco, Mexico
3
Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Av. Ejército Nacional 223, Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad de México 11320, Mexico
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diversity 2021, 13(7), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/d13070292
Submission received: 10 May 2021 / Revised: 21 June 2021 / Accepted: 22 June 2021 / Published: 28 June 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aquatic Organisms Research with DNA Barcodes)
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Abstract

This study is focused on the aquatic environments of the Sian Ka’an reserve, a World Heritage Site. We applied recently developed protocols for the rapid assessment of most animal taxa inhabiting any freshwater system using light traps and DNA barcodes, represented by the mitochondrial gene Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI). We DNA barcoded 1037 specimens comprising mites, crustaceans, insects, and fish larvae from 13 aquatic environments close or inside the reserve, with a success rate of 99.8%. In total, 167 barcode index numbers (BINs) were detected. From them, we identified 43 species. All others remain as a BIN. Besides, we applied the non-invasive method of environmental DNA (eDNA) to analyze the adult fish communities and identified the sequences obtained with the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD). All round, we found 25 fish species and other terrestrial vertebrates from this region. No alien species was found. After comparing the BINs from all systems, we found that each water body was unique with respect to the communities observed. The reference library presented here represents the first step for future programs to detect any change in these ecosystems, including invasive species, and to improve the knowledge of freshwater zooplankton, enhancing the task of compiling the species barcodes not yet stored in databases (such as BOLD or GenBank).
Keywords: biodiversity; sinkhole; Chironomidae; Copepoda; Trombidiformes; cladocera; Ostracoda; Yucatan Peninsula biodiversity; sinkhole; Chironomidae; Copepoda; Trombidiformes; cladocera; Ostracoda; Yucatan Peninsula
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Valdez-Moreno, M.; Mendoza-Carranza, M.; Rendón-Hernández, E.; Alarcón-Chavira, E.; Elías-Gutiérrez, M. DNA Barcodes Applied to a Rapid Baseline Construction in Biodiversity Monitoring for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Sian Ka’an Reserve (Mexico) and Adjacent Areas. Diversity 2021, 13, 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13070292

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Valdez-Moreno M, Mendoza-Carranza M, Rendón-Hernández E, Alarcón-Chavira E, Elías-Gutiérrez M. DNA Barcodes Applied to a Rapid Baseline Construction in Biodiversity Monitoring for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Sian Ka’an Reserve (Mexico) and Adjacent Areas. Diversity. 2021; 13(7):292. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13070292

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Valdez-Moreno, Martha, Manuel Mendoza-Carranza, Eduardo Rendón-Hernández, Erika Alarcón-Chavira, and Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez. 2021. "DNA Barcodes Applied to a Rapid Baseline Construction in Biodiversity Monitoring for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Sian Ka’an Reserve (Mexico) and Adjacent Areas" Diversity 13, no. 7: 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13070292

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Valdez-Moreno, M., Mendoza-Carranza, M., Rendón-Hernández, E., Alarcón-Chavira, E., & Elías-Gutiérrez, M. (2021). DNA Barcodes Applied to a Rapid Baseline Construction in Biodiversity Monitoring for the Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Sian Ka’an Reserve (Mexico) and Adjacent Areas. Diversity, 13(7), 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13070292

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