Species identification using DNA barcodes has been widely adopted by forensic scientists
as an effective molecular tool for tracking adulterations in food and for analysing samples …

More than 230,000 known species representing 31 metazoan phyla populate the world's
oceans. Perhaps another 1,000,000 or more species remain to be discovered. There is …

Introduction The PCR-based analysis of homologous genes has become one of the most
powerful approaches for species detection and identification, particularly with the recent …

This review presents a comprehensive overview of the current status regarding the global
diversity of the echinoderm class Ophiuroidea, focussing on taxonomy and distribution …

Background Building reference libraries of DNA barcodes is relatively straightforward when
specifically designed primers are available to amplify the COI-5P region from a relatively …

Biological invasions are a major threat to the world's biodiversity with consequences on
ecosystem structure and functioning, species evolution, and human well-being (through …

The role of dispersal potential on phylogeographic structure, evidenced by the degree of
genetic structure and the presence of coincident genetic and biogeographic breaks, was …

Despite the deep sea being the largest habitat on Earth, there are just 77 population genetic
studies of invertebrates (115 species) inhabiting non‐chemosynthetic ecosystems on the …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) comprises DNA fragments that have been shed into the
environment by organisms, and which can be extracted from environmental samples such …

To investigate the timing and intensity of winter spawning by coastal invertebrates, we
enumerated embryos in plankton samples collected in daily time series from January to …