Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and …
An understanding of how biotic interactions shape species' distributions is central to predicting host–symbiont responses under climate change. Switches to locally adapted …
For over a decade, DNA barcoding has proven an effective modern tool in taxonomy, evolutionary biology and biodiversity research. Many new species have been discovered …
The seafloor contains valuable mineral resources, including polymetallic (or manganese) nodules that form on offshore abyssal plains. The largest and most commercially attractive …
Prologue 'As the study of natural science advances, the language of scientific description may be greatly simplified and abridged. This has already been done by Linneaus and may …
CH Lue, ML Buffington, S Scheffer… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular identification is increasingly used to speed up biodiversity surveys and laboratory experiments. However, many groups of organisms cannot be reliably identified using …
The implementation of HTS (high-throughput sequencing) approaches is rapidly changing our understanding of the lichen symbiosis, by uncovering high bacterial and fungal diversity …
Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease of global importance. A large spectrum of asymptomatic animal hosts can carry the infection and contribute to the burden of human …
Highlights•Larvae of at least 30 butterfly and moth clades associate with ants.•Lycaenid and riodinid caterpillars range from mutualists to parasites of ants.•Modifications of a suite of 'ant …