Effective identification of species using short DNA fragments (DNA barcoding and DNA
metabarcoding) requires reliable sequence reference libraries of known taxa. Both …

Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

Considerable promise and excitement exist in the application of environmental DNA (eDNA)
methods to environmental monitoring and species inventories as eDNA can provide cost …

Metabarcoding of complex metazoan communities is increasingly being used to measure
biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, revolutionizing our ability to …

Traditional methods of characterizing biodiversity are increasingly being supplemented and
replaced by approaches based on DNA sequencing alone. These approaches commonly …

Applications of biological knowledge, such as forensics, often require the determination of
biological materials to a species level. As such, DNA-based approaches to identification …

Genetic tools are increasingly used to identify and discriminate between species. One key
transition in this process was the recognition of the potential of the ca 658bp fragment of the …

In the context of global biodiversity loss, molecular species delimitation approaches can be
very useful for accelerating species discovery through DNA taxonomy and inventory through …

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 …

Metabarcoding of Metazoa using mitochondrial genes may be confounded by both the
accumulation of PCR and sequencing artefacts and the co‐amplification of nuclear …