Effective conservation of species and ecosystems requires the understanding of important
ecological traits, such as dietary habits, food webs, and trophic niches. In diet studies, the …

Over the last three decades, mitochondrial DNA has been the most popular marker of
molecular diversity, for a combination of technical ease‐of‐use considerations, and …

Eight years after DNA barcoding was formally proposed on a large scale, CO1 sequences
are rapidly accumulating from around the world. While studies to date have mostly targeted …

This study presents DNA barcode records for 4118 specimens representing 561 species of
bees belonging to the six families of A poidea (A ndrenidae, A pidae, C olletidae, H alictidae …

DNA barcodes, like traditional sources of taxonomic information, are potentially powerful
heuristics in the identification of described species but require mindful analytical …

Lakes and ponds are scattered on Earth's surface as islands in the ocean. The organisms
inhabiting these ecosystems have thus developed strategies to pass the barrier represented …

Due to insufficient morphological diagnostic characters in larval fishes, it is easy to
misidentify them and difficult to key to the genus or species level. The identification results …

Coalescent‐based species delimitation methods combine population genetic and
phylogenetic theory to provide an objective means for delineating evolutionarily significant …

DNA barcoding is a system designed to provide species identification by using standardized
gene regions as internal species tag. Foreseen since its earlier development as a solution to …

Traditionally, taxonomic identification has relied upon morphological characters. In the last
two decades, molecular tools based on DNA sequences of short standardised gene …