Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Although next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology revolutionized sequencing, offering
a tremendous sequencing capacity with groundbreaking depth and accuracy, it continues to …

In recent years, nanopore technology has become increasingly important in the field of life
science and biomedical research. By embedding a nano-scale hole in a thin membrane and …

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 …

International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have
committed to conserve, and sustainably and equitably use, biodiversity. The CBD is a vital …

Invertebrate biodiversity remains poorly understood although it comprises much of the
terrestrial animal biomass, most species and supplies many ecosystem services. The main …

1. DNA metabarcoding is a cost‐effective species identification approach with great potential
to assist entomological ecologists. This review presents a practical guide to help …

The COVID-19 pandemic has created massive demand for widespread, distributed tools for
detecting SARS-CoV-2 genetic material. The hurdles to scalable testing include reagent and …

Read mapping is a fundamental step in many genomics applications. It is used to identify
potential matches and differences between fragments (called reads) of a sequenced …

Global conservation policy and action have largely neglected protecting and monitoring
genetic diversity—one of the three main pillars of biodiversity. Genetic diversity (diversity …