COI metabarcoding with a curated reference database and optimized protocol provides a reliable species-level diversity assessment of tardigrades - database ver.03

<b>COI reference database for tardigrades ver.03</b>The repository contains a reference database of curated COI sequences of tardigrades. The curated database is a ready-to-use tool allowing to investigate the diversity of the phylum Tardigrada in metabarcoding studies.Version 01 is the supplementary data for the publication Surmacz et al. 2025, Integrative Zoology and is subsequently updated to include new barcodes and taxonomic changes.The database includes the two files:<i>.XLSX</i> file with taxonomy annotation, sequences, and additional information, which can be easily converted to any format commonly used in metabarcoding pipelines;<i>.FASTA</i> file with the sequences and taxonomic classification in sequence headers.<br><b>Paper describing the database (and tardigrade COI metabarcoding protocol):</b><br>Surmacz B., Vecchi M., Fontaneto D., Budzik K., Godziek J., Matsko Y., Stec D. 2025. COI metabarcoding with a curated reference database and optimized protocol provides a reliable species-level diversity assessment of tardigrades. Integrative Zoology https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12972