The Division of Birds in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is one of the world’s largest and most important taxonomic collections. It comprises more than 640,000 specimens representing 9600 species, from which more than 20,000 tissue subsamples representing 2200 species have been preserved in the Museum’s cryocollection. The approved DNA barcode region has been sequenced from more than 3,000 tissue samples representing more than 1400 species. This dataset was made public in GenBank in December 2011 which increased the total number of bird species with barcode records in GenBank by 91%. All records comply with the data standards proposed by the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and approved by GenBank and the other members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration. Accordingly, all records have the reserved keyword “BARCODE”. Future additions to this dataset will be submitted to GenBank as new specimens are added to the NMNH bird collection.
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