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 …

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 …

Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

A central challenge in the present era of biodiversity loss is to assess and manage human
impacts on freshwater ecosystems. Macroinvertebrates are an important group for such …

Amplicon based metabarcoding promises rapid and cost-efficient analyses of species
composition. However, it is disputed whether abundance estimates can be derived from …

Two hundred and seven species of fish, mostly Australian marine fish, were sequenced
(barcoded) for a 655 bp region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene …

Astraptes fulgerator, first described in 1775, is a common and widely distributed neotropical
skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). We combine 25 years of natural history …

Short DNA sequences from a standardized region of the genome provide a DNA barcode for
identifying species. Compiling a public library of DNA barcodes linked to named specimens …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used to study molecular ecology and
phylogeography for 25 years. Much important information has been gained in this way, but it …