The past decade has seen the availability of insect genomic data explode, with
mitochondrial (mt) genome data seeing the greatest growth. The widespread adoption of …

Abstract 'Mitochondrial metagenomics'(MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of
total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial …

DNA barcoding has had a major impact on biodiversity science. The elegant simplicity of
establishing massive scale databases for a few barcode loci is continuing to change our …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how grou**s in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

High-throughput DNA methods hold great promise for phylogenetic analysis of lineages that
are difficult to study with conventional molecular and morphological approaches. The mites …

Until now, the potential of NGS for the construction of barcode libraries or integrative
taxonomy has been seldom realised. Here, we amplified (two-step PCR) and simultaneously …

The double-stranded, circular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is present in all eukaryotic
life forms, was initially discovered and characterized in the last century and has been widely …

Global loss of biodiversity is an ongoing process that concerns both local and global
authorities. Studies of biodiversity mainly involve traditional methods using morphological …

Field‐collected specimens of invertebrates are regularly killed and preserved in ethanol,
prior to DNA extraction from the specimens, while the ethanol fraction is usually discarded …