The expanding role of DNA barcodes: Indispensable tools for ecology, evolution, and conservation

MR Gostel, WJ Kress - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA barcoding has transformed the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation by
providing a rapid and effective tool for species identification. The growth of DNA barcodes as …

Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects

KL Bell, N De Vere, A Keller, RT Richardson, A Gous… - …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Identification of the species origin of pollen has many applications, including assessment of
plant–pollinator networks, reconstruction of ancient plant communities, product …

Quantitative and qualitative assessment of pollen DNA metabarcoding using constructed species mixtures

KL Bell, KS Burgess, JC Botsch, EK Dobbs… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pollen DNA metabarcoding—marker‐based genetic identification of potentially mixed‐
species pollen samples—has applications across a variety of fields. While basic species …

Rapid identification of the botanical and entomological sources of honey using DNA metabarcoding

SWJ Prosser, PDN Hebert - Food Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Honey is generated by various bee species from diverse plants, and because the value of
different types of honey varies more than 100-fold, it is a target for fraud. This paper …

Classical and novel approaches to the analysis of honey and detection of adulterants

A Naila, SH Flint, AZ Sulaiman, A Ajit, Z Weeds - Food Control, 2018 - Elsevier
Honey is an extract of floral and secretions from a variety of bees. Some honey
manufactures adulterate pure honey with industrial sugar, chemicals, and water either …

Life barcoded by DNA barcodes

M Guo, C Yuan, L Tao, Y Cai, W Zhang - Conservation Genetics …, 2022 - Springer
The modern concept of DNA-based barcoding for cataloguing biodiversity was proposed in
2003 by first adopting an approximately 600 bp fragment of the mitochondrial COI gene to …

The treasure vault can be opened: Large-scale genome skimming works well using herbarium and silica gel dried material

IG Alsos, S Lavergne, MKF Merkel, M Boleda… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Genome skimming has the potential for generating large data sets for DNA barcoding and
wider biodiversity genomic studies, particularly via the assembly and annotation of full …

An rbcL reference library to aid in the identification of plant species mixtures by DNA metabarcoding

KL Bell, VM Loeffler, BJ Brosi - Applications in plant sciences, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the study: DNA metabarcoding has broad‐ranging applications in ecology,
aerobiology, biosecurity, and forensics. A bioinformatics pipeline has recently been …

Molecular markers: An overview of data published for fungi over the last ten years

M Oliveira, L Azevedo - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungi are amongst the most abundant and diverse organisms. Despite being widely known
for their adverse role in food spoilage or as pathogens for humans, animals, or plants, they …

Lake sedimentary DNA accurately records 20th Century introductions of exotic conifers in Scotland

P Sjögren, ME Edwards, L Gielly, CT Langdon… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) has recently emerged as a new proxy for reconstructing past
vegetation, but its taphonomy, source area and representation biases need better …