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BIOSCAN, the second phase of iBOL, aims at illuminating biodiversity by discovering species, unveiling species interactions, and investigating species dynamics. The targets include generating DNA barcodes for at least two million species, sequencing symbiomes to investigate interactions, and conducting metabarcoding studies at 2,000 sites worldwide.\u00a0Germany will contribute to BIOSCAN<\/a> through another major large-scale DNA barcoding project. The new German Barcode of Life project, GBOL III: Dark Taxa<\/a>\u00a0commenced on July 1st<\/sup>, 2020. The project is funded by a 5.3 million Euro grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″ custom_padding=”0px|0px|60px|0px|false|false”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.9″ text_font=”||||||||” custom_margin=”18px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”16px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone”]<\/p>\n The project will address a range of questions related to the part of the German fauna that is still largely unknown, and comprises the so-called \u201cDark Taxa\u201d, in particular Diptera (flies and midges) and parasitoid Hymenoptera (parasitoid wasps). Twelve PhD students at three major natural history institutions in Bonn (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig), Munich (Bavarian State Collection of Zoology), Stuttgart (State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart), and the University of W\u00fcrzburg will tackle the taxonomy of Germany\u2019s “Dark Taxa” using an integrative taxonomic approach. The Entomological Society Krefeld further joins the consortium.<\/p>\n A major goal of the project is the training of a new generation of taxonomists. The project will focus on extensive sampling of the target taxa, assessment of the performance of DNA barcoding for the identification of species in these often extremely diverse and species rich, yet virtually unknown groups of organisms, and their detection in mass samples as part of metabarcoding studies. 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Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
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