| Participation, Benefits, and Responsibilities |
How can I participate?
- Join the worldwide campaign
- Insert COI sequences, tracefiles, taxonomic assignments and collection details into the Barcode of Life Data System
- Send identified specimens for barcode analysis
- Collect fresh caddisfly samples
- Help with species identification of barcoded caddisfly specimens
Benefits of Participation
- Campaign members can easily deposit and manage COI barcodes and other information for all specimens via the BOLD system
- The CCDB may provide free sample processing to participating members with limited funds or no access to sequencing facilities, provided that the contributed caddisfly samples build new species coverage
- The CCDB can provide competitive sequencing charges to members with grants in place
- Barcoded specimens can be retained by the original collector
- DNA aliquots can be shared with sample donors
- Easy publication of COI sequences to GenBank
- Utilization of analytical tools on BOLD
- Sequences and details of specimen information are confidential to project participants and the campaign coordinator until published
- Campaign members may establish connections with members of other projects (upon mutual agreements) through the campaign coordinator
Responsibilities
- Campaign participants are expected to provide reliable species identifications
- Sample donors are responsible for providing detailed specimen information, e.g. taxonomy, collection information (collectors, collection date, GPS coordinates, etc.), sex, and life stage
- Sample donors are encouraged to deposit barcoded specimens in a major collection
- Sample donors are expected to re-examine species identity should discrepancies arise between morphological identification and COI results
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