Abstract
DNA barcoding plays an important role in exploring undescribed biodiversity and is increasingly used to delimit lineages at the species level (see Chap. 4 by Miralles et al.). Although several approaches and programs have been developed to perform species delimitation from datasets of single-locus DNA sequences, such as DNA barcodes, most of these were not initially provided as user-friendly GUI-driven executables. In spite of their differences, most of these tools share the same goal, i.e., inferring de novo a partition of subsets, potentially each representing a distinct species. More recently, a proposed common exchange format for the resulting species partitions (SPART) has been implemented by several of these tools, paving the way toward developing an interoperable digital environment entirely dedicated to integrative and comparative species delimitation. In this chapter, we provide detailed protocols for the use of two bioinformatic tools, one for single locus molecular species delimitation (ASAP) and one for statistical comparison of species partitions resulting from any kind of species delimitation analyses (LIMES).
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