DNA barcoding has transformed the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation by
providing a rapid and effective tool for species identification. The growth of DNA barcodes as …

Declines in bee populations across the world threaten food security and ecosystem function.
It is currently not possible to routinely predict which specific stressors lead to declines in …

The increasing popularity of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) DNA metabarcoding
warrants a careful look at the underlying reference databases used to make high-throughput …

The accuracy and reliability of DNA metabarcoding analyses depend on the breadth and
quality of the reference libraries that underpin them. However, there are limited options …

Alcohol use disorders are associated with altered stress responses, but the impact of stress
or stress hormones on alcohol-associated tissue injury remain unknown. We evaluated the …

The widespread practice of applying sewage sludge to arable land makes use of nutrients
indispensable for crops and reduces the need for inorganic fertilizer, however this …

Understanding animal foraging ecology requires large sample sizes spanning broad
environmental and temporal gradients. For pollinators, this has been hampered by the …

Corticosterone, the stress hormone, exacerbates alcohol‐associated tissue injury, but the
mechanism involved is unknown. We examined the role of the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) …

Reference databases with wide taxonomic coverage are greatly needed in many fields of
biology, most particularly for the taxonomic assignment of metabarcoding sequences …

Biodiversity studies greatly benefit from molecular tools, such as DNA metabarcoding, which
provides an effective identification tool in biomonitoring and conservation programmes. The …