Vast global declines of freshwater and marine fish diversity and population abundance pose
serious threats to both ecosystem sustainability and human livelihoods. Environmental DNA …

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 …

Cymbidium is an orchid genus that has undergone rapid radiation and has high ornamental,
economic, ecological and cultural importance, but its classification based on morphology is …

Numerous genomic methods developed over the past two decades have enabled the
discovery and extraction of orthologous loci to help resolve phylogenetic relationships …

Molecular methods are increasingly used to identify species that lack conspicuous macro‐or
micromorphological characters. Taxonomic and ecological research teams barcode large …

Phylogenetic placement of query samples on an existing phylogeny is increasingly used in
molecular ecology, including sample identification and microbiome environmental sampling …

The identification of floral visitation by pollinators provides an opportunity to improve our
understanding of the fine-scale ecological interactions between plants and pollinators …

Soil invertebrates are among the least understood metazoans on Earth. Thus far, the lack of
taxonomically broad and dense genomic resources has made it hard to thoroughly …

Recent technological advances in long‐read high‐throughput sequencing and assembly
methods have facilitated the generation of annotated chromosome‐scale whole‐genome …

DNA metabarcoding is used to enumerate and identify taxa in both environmental samples
and tissue mixtures, but the effectiveness of particular markers depends on their sensitivity to …