Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring

R Van Klink, T August, Y Bas, P Bodesheim… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Blowfly genomics: Current insights, knowledge gaps, and future perspectives

DR Parmar, NP Johnston, JF Wallman… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•A quantitative overview of blowfly genetic resources reveals stark knowledge
gaps•Enhanced blowfly genomic data improves species identification, systematics and …

PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes

R Li, S Ratnasingham, I Zarubiieva… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA-based identification is vital for classifying biological specimens, yet methods to quantify
the uncertainty of sequence-based taxonomic assignments are scarce. Challenges arise …

Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes

P Peña‐Aguilera, NM Schmidt, L Stewart… - Insect Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Factors sha** arthropod and plant community structure at fine spatial scales are poorly
understood. This includes microclimate, which likely plays a large role in sha** local …

Current state of DNA barcoding of sciaroidea (Diptera)—Highlighting the need to build the reference library

J Kjærandsen - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary DNA barcoding is a method by which a specific region of the mitochondrial
genome is used to quantify genetic distances within and between animal species. Most DNA …

DNA barcode library of megadiverse lepidoptera in an Alpine Nature Park (Italy) reveals unexpected species diversity

P Huemer, C Wieser - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Species inventories are a prerequisite for biodiversity monitoring and conservation,
particularly in protected areas. However, the possibilities of a standardized survey of species …

 Delimitation of the widely distributed Palearctic Stenodema species (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Miridae): insights from molecular and morphological data

AA Namyatova, PA Dzhelali, FV Konstantinov - ZooKeys, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Species delimitation presents a significant challenge in biology, particularly in
systematics. Here, an integrative approach is employed to assess the species boundaries of …

Morphological Ontogeny, Ecology, and Biogeography of Fuscozetes fuscipes (Acari, Oribatida, Ceratozetidae)

S Seniczak, A Seniczak, BH Jordal - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The systematic status of Fuscozetes is not clear in the literature. Therefore,
the morphological ontogeny of F. fuscipes, the type species of this genus, was investigated …

Barcoding Hymenoptera: 11 Malaise Traps in Three Thai Forests: The First 68 Trap Weeks and 15,338 Parasitoid Wasp Sequences

DLJ Quicke, PDN Hebert, M Pentinsaari, BA Butcher - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
We report the results of DNA barcoding week-long Malaise trap catches from 11 sites in
three Thai conservation areas, concentrating on the parasitoid Hymenoptera, particularly the …

HAPP: High-Accuracy Pipeline for Processing deep metabarcoding data

J Sundh, E Granqvist, E Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
We introduce HAPP, a high-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data,
leveraging data richness to enhance the signal-to-noise-ratio. Starting with denoised …