Qbank’s Arthropods database was first designed and developed as part of the QBOL project by J.-Y. Rasplus (INRAE-CBGP, France), A. Cruaud (INRAE-CBGP, France), A.J.M. Loomans (NVWA, the Netherlands) and collaborators between 2011 and 2015.
Currently, the EPPO-Q-bank Arthropod database contains DNA sequences (barcodes) of quarantine arthropod species for Europe and their closest relatives. The choice was made to sequence the mitochondrial Cytochrome c oxydase I standard barcode fragment (COI) as well as the nuclear internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) to provide a reliable identification tool for all developmental stages of those Q-arthropods and congeneric pest species.
