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

R Meier, MKN Lawniczak… - Annual Review of …, 2025‏ - 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 …

Bioactive compounds by microalgae and potentials for the management of some human disease conditions

CN Eze, CK Onyejiaka, SA Ihim, TO Ayoka… - AIMS …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microalgae biomasses are excellent sources of diverse bioactive compounds such as lipids,
polysaccharides, carotenoids, vitamins, phenolics and phycobiliproteins. Large-scale …

Next‐generation species delimitation and taxonomy: implications for biogeography

M Vences, A Miralles, C Dufresnes - Journal of Biogeography, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
An accurate species‐level taxonomy is paramount for biogeographical research, and
conversely, biogeographical data are of importance for species delimitation. We here review …

iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists

M Vences, A Miralles, S Brouillet, J Ducasse… - BioRxiv, 2021‏ - biorxiv.org
While powerful and user-friendly software suites exist for phylogenetics, and an impressive
cybertaxomic infrastructure of online species databases has been set up in the past two …

Brazilian Flora 2020: Leveraging the power of a collaborative scientific network

Brazil Flora Group, J Gomes‐da‐Silva, FLR Filardi… - Taxon, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

Identification of species by combining molecular and morphological data using convolutional neural networks

B Yang, Z Zhang, CQ Yang, Y Wang, MC Orr… - Systematic …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Integrative taxonomy is central to modern taxonomy and systematic biology, including
behavior, niche preference, distribution, morphological analysis, and DNA barcoding …

Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021)

D Ahrens, ST Ahyong, A Ballerio, MVL Barclay… - Zootaxa, 2021‏ - biotaxa.org
New methods in taxonomy and systematics can influence the overall practice of formally
naming and describing biodiversity. DNA barcoding has been controversial since its …

Concatenator, a user-friendly program to concatenate DNA sequences, implementing graphical user interfaces for MAFFT and FastTree

M Vences, S Patmanidis, V Kharchev… - Bioinformatics …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Motivation Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses require multi-gene input files in
different formats, but there are few user-friendly programs facilitating the workflow of …

Whole-genome sequencing in medicinal plants: current progress and prospect

Y Pei, L Leng, W Sun, B Liu, X Feng, X Li… - Science China Life …, 2024‏ - Springer
Advancements in genomics have dramatically accelerated the research on medicinal plants,
and the development of herbgenomics has promoted the “Project of 1K Medicinal Plant …