COI Barcode Dataset for Mosquito Vectors from Colombian Mangrove-Coastal Ecosystems

Richard Hoyos Lopez provides a curated dataset of 181 COI DNA barcode sequences from mosquito vectors in mangrove-coastal ecosystems of Córdoba, Colombia. The final alignment contains 181 sequences of 696 base pairs after quality control. The dataset was last updated on May 16, 2026, and includes supplementary files for analysis.

Use Cases

• Conducting species identification and delimitation based on the provided COI barcode sequences.
• Analyzing genetic distances and phylogenetic relationships using the included K2P distance outputs and Neighbor-Joining tree files.
• Validating taxonomic assignments by cross-referencing the BOLD Identification Engine outputs with morphological data.
• Studying mosquito biodiversity and potential vector species in arbovirus-active coastal and mangrove ecosystems.

Strengths

• Contains 181 curated COI sequences of 696 base pairs each.
• Includes quality-control documentation and multiple analysis outputs (K2P distances, NJ trees, BOLD outputs).
• Data is explicitly curated, with exact duplicates and records with internal stop codons removed.

Limitations

• Row count for individual data files is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The geographic scope is limited to coastal ecosystems of Córdoba, Colombia.

Provenance

Source

Richard Hoyos Lopez

Collection Method

Collected from mosquito taxa in mangrove-coastal and rural coastal ecosystems.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-16 14:37:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mangrove-coastal and rural coastal ecosystems of Córdoba, Colombia.