PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Rimet, Frédéric AU - Aylagas, Eva AU - Borja, Angel AU - Bouchez, Agnès AU - Canino, Alexis AU - Chauvin, Christian AU - Chonova, Teofana AU - Ciampor Jr, Fedor AU - Costa, Filipe О. AU - Ferrari, Benoit J. D. AU - Gastineau, Romain AU - Goulon, Chloé AU - Gugger, Muriel AU - Holzmann, Maria AU - Jahn, Regine AU - Kahlert, Maria AU - Kusber, Wolf-Henning AU - Laplace-Treyture, Christophe AU - Leese, Florian AU - Leliaert, Frederik AU - Mann, David G. AU - Marchand, Frédéric AU - Méléder, Vona AU - Pawlowski, Jan AU - Rasconi, Serena AU - Rivera, Sinziana AU - Rougerie, Rodolphe AU - Schweizer, Magali AU - Trobajo, Rosa AU - Vasselon, Valentin AU - Vivien, Régis AU - Weigand, Alexander AU - Witkowski, Andrzej AU - Zimmermann, Jonas AU - Ekrem, Torbjørn TI - Metadata standards and practical guidelines for specimen and DNA curation when building barcode reference libraries for aquatic life DP - 26/02/2021 TA - Metabarcoding and Metagenomics VI - 5 4100 - https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.5.58056 SO - MBMG26/02/2021; AB - DNA barcoding and metabarcoding is increasingly used to effectively and precisely assess and monitor biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. As these methods rely on data availability and quality of barcode reference libraries, it is important to develop and follow best practices to ensure optimal quality and traceability of the metadata associated with the reference barcodes used for identification. Sufficient metadata, as well as vouchers, corresponding to each reference barcode must be available to ensure reliable barcode library curation and, thereby, provide trustworthy baselines for downstream molecular species identification. This document (1) specifies the data and metadata required to ensure the relevance, the accessibility and traceability of DNA barcodes and (2) specifies the recommendations for DNA harvesting and for the storage of both voucher specimens/samples and barcode data. IS -