DNA barcodes for ecology, evolution, and conservation

WJ Kress, C García-Robledo, M Uriarte… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
The use of DNA barcodes, which are short gene sequences taken from a standardized
portion of the genome and used to identify species, is entering a new phase of application …

Plant DNA barcodes: Applications today and in the future

WJ Kress - Journal of systematics and evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcodes have provided a new biological tool for organismal biologists to increase
their understanding of the natural world. Over the last decade four plant DNA barcode …

The expanding role of DNA barcodes: Indispensable tools for ecology, evolution, and conservation

MR Gostel, WJ Kress - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Limited tolerance by insects to high temperatures across tropical elevational gradients and the implications of global warming for extinction

C García-Robledo, EK Kuprewicz… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The critical thermal maximum (CTmax), the temperature at which motor control is lost in
animals, has the potential to determine if species will tolerate global warming. For insects …

Barcoding beetles: a regional survey of 1872 species reveals high identification success and unusually deep interspecific divergences

M Pentinsaari, PDN Hebert, M Mutanen - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
With 400 K described species, beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) represent the most diverse
order in the animal kingdom. Although the study of their diversity currently represents a …

The use of DNA barcodes in food web construction—terrestrial and aquatic ecologists unite!

T Roslin, S Majaneva - Genome, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how groupings in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

Pragmatic applications and universality of DNA barcoding for substantial organisms at species level: a review to explore a way forward

S Ahmed, M Ibrahim, C Nantasenamat… - BioMed Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcodes are regarded as hereditary succession codes that serve as a recognition
marker to address several queries relating to the identification, classification, community …

Using taxonomic consistency with semi‐automated data pre‐processing for high quality DNA barcodes

B Rulik, J Eberle, L von der Mark… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, large‐scale DNA barcoding campaigns have generated an enormous
amount of COI barcodes, which are usually stored in NCBI's GenBank and the official …

Barcoding of Chrysomelidae of Euro-Mediterranean area: efficiency and problematic species

G Magoga, DC Sahin, D Fontaneto, M Montagna - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with more than 37,000 species
worldwide and about 2,300 in the Euro-Mediterranean region, are an ecological and …

A combined field survey and molecular identification protocol for comparing forest arthropod biodiversity across spatial scales

BC Emerson, J Casquet, H López… - Molecular Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Obtaining fundamental biodiversity metrics such as alpha, beta and gamma diversity for
arthropods is often complicated by a lack of prior taxonomic information and/or taxonomic …