Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Most insects encountered in the field are initially entomological dark matter in that they
cannot be identified to species while alive. This explains the enduring quest for efficient …

Abstract Here, we describe Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning (ASAP), a new
method to build species partitions from single locus sequence alignments (ie, barcode data …

Numerous studies covering some aspects of SARS-CoV-2 data analyses are being
published on a daily basis, including a regularly updated phylogeny on nextstrain. org. Here …

Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of
various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV …

Colletotrichum is one of the most important plant pathogenic genera that is responsible for
numerous diseases which can have a profound impact on the agricultural sector. Species …

Diaporthe is an important plant pathogenic genus, which also occurs as endophytes and
saprobes. Many Diaporthe species that are morphologically similar proved to be genetically …

Abstract New, rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and
delimitation methods are needed for tackling “dark taxa,” here defined as groups for which …

Most new cryptic species are described using conventional tree‐and distance‐based
species delimitation methods (SDMs), which rely on phylogenetic arrangements and …