Future of DNA-based insect monitoring

PYS Chua, SJ Bourlat, C Ferguson, P Korlevic, L Zhao… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

Illuminating entomological dark matter with DNA barcodes in an era of insect decline, deep learning, and genomics

R Meier, MKN Lawniczak… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Most insects encountered in the field are initially entomological dark matter in that they
cannot be identified to species while alive. This explains the enduring quest for efficient …

ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone

A Srivathsan, L Lee, K Katoh, E Hartop, SN Kutty… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background DNA barcodes are a useful tool for discovering, understanding, and monitoring
biodiversity which are critical tasks at a time of rapid biodiversity loss. However, widespread …

Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity

A Srivathsan, Y Ang, JM Heraty, WS Hwang… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Most of arthropod biodiversity is unknown to science. Consequently, it has been unclear
whether insect communities around the world are dominated by the same or different taxa …

Contamination in mangrove ecosystems: A synthesis of literature reviews across multiple contaminant categories

GT Szafranski, EF Granek - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Mangrove forests are exposed to diverse ocean-sourced and land-based contaminants, yet
mangrove contamination research lags. We synthesize existing data and identify major gaps …

ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real‐time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10. 4

A Srivathsan, V Feng, D Suárez, B Emerson… - Cladistics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most arthropod species are undescribed and hidden in specimen‐rich samples that are
difficult to sort to species using morphological characters. For such samples, sorting to …

Network analysis with either Illumina or MinION reveals that detecting vertebrate species requires metabarcoding of iDNA from a diverse fly community

A Srivathsan, RK Loh, EJ Ong, L Lee, Y Ang… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA obtained from invertebrates (iDNA) can be metabarcoded in order to survey vertebrate
communities. However, little attention has been paid to the interaction between the …

Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples

C Vasilita, V Feng, AK Hansen, E Hartop… - Molecular ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of DNA barcoding is well established for specimen identification and large‐scale
biodiversity discovery, but remains underutilized for time‐sensitive applications such as …

[HTML][HTML] Mangrove biodiversity and conservation: setting key functional groups and risks of climate-induced functional disruption

AC Ferreira, EC Ashton, RD Ward, I Hendy… - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Climate change (CC) represents an increasing threat to mangroves worldwide and can
amplify impacts caused by local anthropogenic activities. The direct effects of CC on …

Hitchhiking into the future on a fly: Toward a better understanding of phoresy and avian louse evolution (Phthiraptera) by screening bird carcasses for phoretic lice on …

L Lee, DJX Tan, J Oboňa, DR Gustafsson… - Systematic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many phoretic relationships between arthropods are understudied because of taxonomic
impediments. We here illustrate for avian lice riding on hippoboscid flies how new natural …