Species identification through DNA barcoding and its applications: a review

LD Chac, BB Thinh - Biology Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Species identification is a critical aspect of biological research, with applications in fields
such as ecology, microbiology, and conservation. The ability to accurately identify species is …

Cryptic species conservation: a review

D Hending - Biological Reviews, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptic species are groups of two or more taxa that were previously classified as single
nominal species. Being almost morphologically indistinguishable, cryptic species have …

Machine learning approaches delimit cryptic taxa in a previously intractable species complex

HLA Heine, S Derkarabetian, R Morisawa… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryptic species are not diagnosable via morphological criteria, but can be detected through
analysis of DNA sequences. A number of methods have been developed for identifying …

Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India

JTD Caleb - Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2020 - threatenedtaxa.org
A total of 108 species of spider species belonging to 84 genera and 25 families were
identified from the scrub jungle of the Madras Christian College campus. Pagida salticiformis …

DNA barcoding of insects from India: Current status and future perspectives

PR Shashank, NL Naveena, NN Rajgopal… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Insect fauna occupy the largest proportion of animal biodiversity on earth, but the
assessment or quantification in terms of species diversity is far from complete. Several …

DNA barcodes reveal population-dependent cryptic diversity and various cases of sympatry of Korean leptonetid spiders (Araneae: Leptonetidae)

JH Oh, S Kim, S Lee - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Leptonetidae are tiny, rarely encountered spiders that mainly inhabit moist environments,
such as caves, leaf litter, and rock piles. Because they are microhabitat specialists, most …

Method for quick DNA barcode reference library construction

Y Liu, C Xu, Y Sun, X Chen, W Dong… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding has become one of the most important techniques in plant species
identification. Successful application of this technology is dependent on the availability of …

 To be or not to be… Integrative taxonomy and species delimitation in the daddy long-legs spiders of the genus Physocyclus (Araneae, Pholcidae) using DNA …

S Nolasco, A Valdez-Mondragón - ZooKeys, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract Integrative taxonomy is crucial for discovery, recognition, and species delimitation,
especially in underestimated species complex or cryptic species, by incorporating different …

Analysis of whole-genome as a novel strategy for animal species identification

Y Gan, G Qi, L Hao, T **n, Q Lou, W Xu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Survival crises stalk many animals, especially endangered and rare animals. Accurate
species identification plays a pivotal role in animal resource conservation. In this study, we …

Poor performance of DNA barcoding and the impact of RAD loci filtering on the species delimitation of an Iberian ant-eating spider

D Ortiz, S Pekár, J Bilat, N Alvarez - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
Genomic data provide unprecedented power for species delimitation. However, current
implementations are still time and resource consuming. In addition, bioinformatic processing …