Small mammal sequences DNA barcode (DP1.10076.001)

This data product contains the quality-controlled laboratory metadata and QA results for NEON's cytochrome oxidase I (COI) barcoding of small mammal sequences. The DNA barcoding procedure involves the non-distructive collection of tissue from live specimens in the field, extracting and sequencing DNA from the tissue, and matching that sequence data to sequences from previously identified voucher specimens. DNA analysis serves a number of purposes, including verification of taxonomy of specimens that do not receive expert identification, clarification of the taxonomy of rare or cryptic species, and characterization of diversity using molecular markers. For additional details, see the user guide, protocols, and science design listed in the Documentation section in this data product's details webpage. These queries will also provide links to the actual sequence data, which are publicly available on the [Barcode of Life Data System](http://www.boldsystems.org/) (BOLD) website. The sequence data can be obtained by following the links from the NEON data portal, or by directly querying NEON data sets on the BOLD server. From the NEON portal, the link "BOLD Project: Small Mammal sequences DNA barcode" redirects to a page on the BOLD public data portal for the queried data. This is a dynamic link and will automatically update based on the user query. Latency: The expected time from data and/or sample collection in the field to data publication is as follows, for each of the data tables (in days) in the downloaded data package. See the Data Product User Guide for more information. mam_BOLDcollectionData: 375 mam_BOLDspecimenDetails: 375 mam_BOLDtaxonomy: 375 mam_BOLDvoucherInfo: 375