The purpose of this review is to present the most common and emerging DNA‐based
methods used to generate data for biodiversity and biomonitoring studies. As environmental …

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 …

Nucleotide sequence and taxonomy reference databases are critical resources for
widespread applications including marker-gene and metagenome sequencing for …

Taxonomic identification of biological materials can be achieved through DNA barcoding,
where an unknown “barcode” sequence is compared to a reference database. In many …

Metabarcoding can rapidly determine the species composition of bulk samples and thus
aids biodiversity and ecosystem assessment. However, it is essential to use primer sets that …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Tropical forest recovery is fundamental to addressing the intertwined climate and
biodiversity loss crises. While regenerating trees sequester carbon relatively quickly, the …

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 …

DNA metabarcoding combines DNA barcoding with high-throughput sequencing to identify
different taxa within environmental communities. The ITS has already been proposed and …

Mixed community or environmental DNA marker gene sequencing has become a commonly
used technique for biodiversity analyses in freshwater systems. Many cytochrome c oxidase …