A recent talk prepared by Paul Hebert spurred us to evaluate our progress in barcoding the arthropods in Canada’s National Parks. Here are some figures:
24 National Parks collected in (2008-2010, 2012)
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335 collection events
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201,090 specimens sorted and on BOLD (many are awaiting analysis however)
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145,780 specimens barcoded
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137,206 specimens have been assigned Barcode Index Numbers (BINs)
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20,114 BINs (which means roughly 20K species!)
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