Metabarcoding advances agricultural invertebrate biomonitoring by enhancing resolution, increasing throughput and facilitating network inference

BSJ Hawthorne, JP Cuff, LE Collins… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Biomonitoring of agriculturally important insects is increasingly vital given our need to
understand:(a) the severity of impacts by pests and pathogens on crop yield and health and …

Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research

R Cheng, A Luo, M Orr, D Ge, Z Hou, Y Qu… - Integrative …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but
cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 …

DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification reveal similar richness, taxonomic composition and body size patterns among flying insect communities

N Remmel, D Buchner, J Enss… - Insect Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tracking insect biodiversity trends and predicting future trajectories is limited by a lack of
monitoring data across large spatiotemporal scales. DNA metabarcoding is a time‐and cost …

Comparison of destructive and nondestructive DNA extraction methods for the metabarcoding of arthropod bulk samples

A Kirse, SJ Bourlat, K Langen, B Zapke… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is routinely used for biodiversity assessment, in particular targeting
highly diverse groups for which limited taxonomic expertise is available. Various protocols …

Pooling size sorted Malaise trap fractions to maximize taxon recovery with metabarcoding

V Elbrecht, SJ Bourlat, T Hörren, A Lindner, A Mordente… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Small and rare specimens can remain undetected when metabarcoding is
applied on bulk samples with a high specimen size heterogeneity. This is especially critical …

Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trap** and DNA metabarcoding

D Souto‐Vilarós, Y Basset, P Blažek… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although studies of insect decline have recently dominated headlines worldwide, their
interpretation requires caution since for most species, we lack long‐term population …

COI Metabarcoding Provides Insights into the Highly Diverse Diet of a Generalist Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae)

AJD Marques, VA Mata, G Velo-Antón - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA metabarcoding has proven to be an accessible, cost-effective, and non-invasive tool for
dietary analysis of predators in situ. Although DNA metabarcoding provides numerous …

Repeated subsamples during DNA extraction reveal increased diversity estimates in DNA metabarcoding of Malaise traps

VMA Zizka, MF Geiger, T Hörren, A Kirse… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With increased application of DNA metabarcoding in biodiversity assessment, various
laboratory protocols have been optimized, and their further evaluation is subject of current …

Eastern Whip-poor-will abundance declines with urban land cover and increases with moth abundance in the American Midwest

I Souza-Cole, MP Ward, RL Mau… - Ornithological …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Populations of avian aerial insectivores have declined across North America. A leading
factor hypothesized to be driving these trends is a decline in prey populations, although a …

The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: DNA barcodes of Portuguese moths

S Ferreira, MFV Corley, J Nunes… - Biodiversity data …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Background The InBIO Barcoding Initiative (IBI) Dataset-DS-IBILP08 contains
records of 2350 specimens of moths (Lepidoptera species that do not belong to the …