Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

Landscape genomics to enable conservation actions: the California Conservation Genomics Project

HB Shaffer, E Toffelmier, RB Corbett-Detig… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a unique, critically
important step forward in the use of comprehensive landscape genetic data to modernize …

Ensembl 2023

FJ Martin, MR Amode, A Aneja… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ensembl (https://www. ensembl. org) has produced high-quality genomic resources
for vertebrates and model organisms for more than twenty years. During that time, our …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

Green plant genomes: What we know in an era of rapidly expanding opportunities

WJ Kress, DE Soltis, PJ Kersey… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Green plants play a fundamental role in ecosystems, human health, and agriculture. As de
novo genomes are being generated for all known eukaryotic species as advocated by the …

HiFiAdapterFilt, a memory efficient read processing pipeline, prevents occurrence of adapter sequence in PacBio HiFi reads and their negative impacts on genome …

SB Sim, RL Corpuz, TJ Simmonds, SM Geib - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Pacific Biosciences HiFi read technology is currently the industry
standard for high accuracy long-read sequencing that has been widely adopted by large …

Navigating the seven challenges of taxonomic reference databases in metabarcoding analyses

F Keck, M Couton, F Altermatt - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera

CJ Wright, L Stevens, A Mackintosh… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Chromosomes are a central unit of genome organization. One-tenth of all described species
on Earth are butterflies and moths, the Lepidoptera, which generally possess 31 …

Genomics for monitoring and understanding species responses to global climate change

L Bernatchez, AL Ferchaud, CS Berger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …

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 …