Mosquito sequences DNA barcode (DP1.10038.001)

This data product contains the quality-controlled laboratory metadata and QA results for NEON's cytochrome oxidase I (COI) barcoding of mosquito sequences. The DNA barcoding procedure involves the removal of leg tissue from pinned specimens, 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 on mosquito collection, see protocol [NEON.DOC.014049](http://data.neonscience.org/api/v0/documents/NEON.DOC.014049vH): TOS Protocol and Procedure: Mosquito Sampling and science design [NEON.DOC.000908](http://data.neonscience.org/api/v0/documents/NEON.DOC.NEON.DOC.000908vA): TOS Science Design for Terrestrial Microbial Diversity. Queries for this data product will return metadata tables formatted for submission to the Barcode of Life Database. 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: Mosquito 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.

mos_BOLDcollectionData: 255

mos_BOLDspecimenDetails: 255

mos_BOLDtaxonomy: 255

mos_BOLDvoucherInfo: 255