Urban Barcode Project Team The Webswingers
Program:
Urban Barcode Project
Year:
2018-19
Research Topic:
Biodiversity & trade
Taxonomic Group Studied:
Animals: Invertebrate

Project:

Untangling Cobweb's Secrets thru DNA Barcoding
Students:
Wei Xiang Chen, Jerry Campos, Hilman Mujiyono, Jewel Rose Miranda
School:
Health Professions and Human Services,
Mentors:
Rocheli Apilan

Abstract:

Spiders play a big role in biodiversity and are important to our ecosystems. They usually appear during summer to fall. Without spiders, the food chains all living things go through will no longer exist and it would cause a big gap in our ecosystem. Studying biodiversity helps conserves, saves species from becoming extinct and control ecological systems. Biodiversity spiders can be achieved by DNA barcoding and taxonomic research on the cobwebs of spiders. DNA Barcoding leads to the increased knowledge of spider species and the preys they target. DNA extraction from cobwebs is a safe method in determining diversity of spiders without even harming the spiders.

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