Several of the biggest challenges in taxonomy and systematics are related to a toxic mixture
of small size, abundance, and rarity. There are too many species in groups with too few …

Macroinvertebrates that are collected in large numbers pose major problems in basic and
applied biodiversity research: identification to species via morphology is often difficult, slow …

In this study we examine the possibility of utilising partial cox1 gene sequences as barcodes
to identify non-biting midges (Diptera: Chironomidae). We analysed DNA from 97 specimens …

DNA barcoding using a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene
(COI) has proven to be successful for species-level identification in many animal groups …

For over a decade, DNA barcoding has proven an effective modern tool in taxonomy,
evolutionary biology and biodiversity research. Many new species have been discovered …

Background More than 80% of all animal species remain unknown to science. Most of these
species live in the tropics and belong to animal taxa that combine small body size with high …

DNA barcoding and DNA taxonomy have recently been proposed as solutions to the crisis of
taxonomy and received significant attention from scientific journals, grant agencies, natural …

Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with 520 currently known species worldwide,
can be extremely difficult to identify species level based on the morphology. We used 3,670 …

Each holotype specimen provides the only objective link to a particular Linnean binomen.
Sequence information from them is increasingly valuable due to the growing usage of DNA …

New techniques for the species-level sorting of millions of specimens are needed in order to
accelerate species discovery, determine how many species live on earth, and develop …