Effective identification of species using short DNA fragments (DNA barcoding and DNA
metabarcoding) requires reliable sequence reference libraries of known taxa. Both …

Determining diet is a key prerequisite for understanding species interactions, food web
structure and ecological dynamics. In recent years, there has been considerable …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

Within uncharacterized groups, DNA barcodes, short DNA sequences that are present in a
wide range of species, can be used to assign organisms into species. We propose an …

The analysis of food webs and their dynamics facilitates understanding of the mechanistic
processes behind community ecology and ecosystem functions. Having accurate techniques …

DNA-based species identification, known as barcoding, transformed the traditional approach
to the study of biodiversity science. The field is transitioning from barcoding individuals to …

Exhaustive biodiversity data, covering all the taxa in an environment, would be fundamental
to understand how global changes influence organisms living at different trophic levels, and …

DNA barcoding–taxon identification using a standardized DNA region–has received much
attention recently, and is being further developed through an international initiative. We …

DNA barcoding should provide rapid, accurate and automatable species identifications by
using a standardized DNA region as a tag. Based on sequences available in GenBank and …