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 …

The stridulatory organ in Opetiidae and Phoridae (Diptera) and phylogenetic implications for the evolution of higher flies

BV Brown, D de Souza Amorim - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Stridulatory sound-making organs evolved in a group of flies—the family Phoridae—by
modifications of the microstructure of foreleg segments present in the shared ancestor of the …

[PDF][PDF]  Synopeas maximum Awad & Talamas (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae): a new species of parasitoid associated with soybean gall midge, Resseliella maxima …

G Melotto, J Awad, EJ Talamas, RL Koch… - Journal of …, 2023 - jhr.pensoft.net
Abstract Synopeas maximum Awad & Talamas, sp. nov., the first reported parasitoid
associated with the soybean gall midge, Resseliella maxima Gagné, is described based on …

Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity

CM French, LD Bertola, AC Carnaval… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding global patterns of genetic diversity is essential for describing, monitoring,
and preserving life on Earth. To date, efforts to map macrogenetic patterns have been …

Phylogenetic diversity only weakly mitigates climate‐change‐driven biodiversity loss in insect communities

Z Li, B Linard, AP Vogler, DW Yu, Z Wang - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To help address the underrepresentation of arthropods and Asian biodiversity from climate‐
change assessments, we carried out year‐long, weekly sampling campaigns with Malaise …

Surprising morphological diversity in ceraphronid wasps revealed by a distinctive new species of Aphanogmus (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea)

M Moser, JM Ulmer… - European …, 2023 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
Within the well-studied Palearctic entomofauna, it is often assumed that the discovery of new
species is limited to resolving cryptic species complexes within dark taxa. Herein, we …

Scalable, Cost-Effective, and Decentralized DNA Barcoding with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

A Srivathsan, R Meier - DNA Barcoding: Methods and Protocols, 2024 - Springer
DNA barcodes are useful in biodiversity research, but sequencing barcodes with dye
termination methods (“Sanger sequencing”) has been so time-consuming and expensive …

Red List criteria are ill-suited for the majority of terrestrial animal biodiversity

R Goodsell, A Tack, F Ronquist, L van Dijk… - ESS Open Archive …, 2024 - authorea.com
Among the most widely used information underpinning conservation is the concept of Red-
Listing species according to criteria developed by the IUCN. The Red List designates …