Uses and misuses of environmental DNA in biodiversity science and conservation

ME Cristescu, PDN Hebert - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The study of environmental DNA (eDNA) has the potential to revolutionize biodiversity
science and conservation action by enabling the census of species on a global scale in near …

Scaling up: A guide to high‐throughput genomic approaches for biodiversity analysis

TM Porter, M Hajibabaei - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this review is to present the most common and emerging DNA‐based
methods used to generate data for biodiversity and biomonitoring studies. As environmental …

A re‐analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.'s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to …

R Meier, BB Blaimer, E Buenaventura, E Hartop… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Halting biodiversity decline is one of the most critical challenges for humanity, but monitoring
biodiversity is hampered by taxonomic impediments. One impediment is the large number of …

The seven deadly sins of DNA barcoding

RA Collins, RH Cruickshank - Molecular ecology resources, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the broad benefits that DNA barcoding can bring to a diverse range of biological
disciplines, a number of shortcomings still exist in terms of the experimental design of …

Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance

AM Piper, J Batovska, NOI Cogan, J Weiss… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

Telenomus remus, a Candidate Parasitoid for the Biological Control of Spodoptera frugiperda in Africa, is already Present on the Continent

M Kenis, H Du Plessis, J Van den Berg, MN Ba… - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, a moth originating from tropical and subtropical
America, has recently become a serious pest of cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Biological …

The effect of geographical scale of sampling on DNA barcoding

J Bergsten, DT Bilton, T Fujisawa, M Elliott… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Eight years after DNA barcoding was formally proposed on a large scale, CO1 sequences
are rapidly accumulating from around the world. While studies to date have mostly targeted …

Illuminating entomological dark matter with DNA barcodes in an era of insect decline, deep learning, and genomics

R Meier, MKN Lawniczak… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Most insects encountered in the field are initially entomological dark matter in that they
cannot be identified to species while alive. This explains the enduring quest for efficient …

A DNA mini-barcoding system for authentication of processed fish products

S Shokralla, RS Hellberg, SM Handy, I King… - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Species substitution is a form of seafood fraud for the purpose of economic gain. DNA
barcoding utilizes species-specific DNA sequence information for specimen identification …

Current progress in DNA barcoding and future implications for entomology

U **bo, T Kato, M Ito - Entomological Science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding is a technique for identifying organisms based on a short, standardized
fragment of genomic DNA. The standardized sequence region is called a DNA barcode …