Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies

DM Leigh, CB van Rees, KL Millette, MF Breed… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible
genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of …

Incomplete estimates of genetic diversity within species: Implications for DNA barcoding

JD Phillips, DJ Gillis, RH Hanner - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding has greatly accelerated the pace of specimen identification to the species
level, as well as species delineation. Whereas the application of DNA barcoding to the …

Lack of statistical rigor in DNA barcoding likely invalidates the presence of a true species' barcode gap

JD Phillips, DJ Gillis, RH Hanner - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
DNA barcoding has been largely successful in satisfactorily exposing levels of standing
genetic diversity for a wide range of taxonomic groups through the employment of only one …

A DNA barcode-based survey of wild urban bees in the Loire Valley, France

I Villalta, R Ledet, M Baude, D Genoud, C Bouget… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The current decline of wild bees puts important ecosystem services such as pollination at
risk. Both inventory and monitoring programs are needed to understand the causes of wild …

Plant DNA barcoding necessitates marker-specific efforts to establish more comprehensive reference databases

A Kolter, B Gemeinholzer - Genome, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
The problem of low species-level identification rates in plants by DNA barcoding is
exacerbated by the fact that reference databases are far from being comprehensive. We …

[HTML][HTML] The arctic and alpine bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus revised from integrative assessment of species' gene coalescents and morphology (Hymenoptera …

PH Williams, MV Berezin, SG Cannings, B Cederberg… - Zootaxa, 2019 - mapress.com
The bumblebees of the subgenus Alpinobombus of the genus Bombus are unusual among
bees for specialising in many of the most northerly vegetated arctic habitats on Earth. Most …

Highly variable COI haplotype diversity between three species of invasive pest fruit fly reflects remarkably incongruent demographic histories

C Doorenweerd, M San Jose, N Barr, L Leblanc… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Distance decay principles predict that species with larger geographic ranges would have
greater intraspecific genetic diversity than more restricted species. However, invasive pest …

[HTML][HTML] Early-diverging bumblebees from across the roof of the world: the high-mountain subgenus Mendacibombus revised from species' gene coalescents and …

PH Williams, J Huang, P Rasmont, J An - Zootaxa, 2016 - mapress.com
The bumblebees of the subgenus Mendacibombus of the genus Bombus are the sister
group to all other extant bumblebees and are unusual among bees for specialising in some …

HACSim: an R package to estimate intraspecific sample sizes for genetic diversity assessment using haplotype accumulation curves

JD Phillips, SH French, RH Hanner, DJ Gillis - PeerJ Computer Science, 2020 - peerj.com
Assessing levels of standing genetic variation within species requires a robust sampling for
the purpose of accurate specimen identification using molecular techniques such as DNA …

Molecular evidence for a new endemic species of Acartia (Copepoda, Calanoida) from the Southeast Pacific coast

A Mesas, VM Aguilera, CE González, R Giesecke… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The loss of biodiversity in marine populations is one of the consequences of the increased
events of extreme environmental conditions in the oceans, which can condition the …