[HTML][HTML] Past, present, and future perspectives of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding: A systematic review in methods, monitoring, and applications of global …

KM Ruppert, RJ Kline, MS Rahman - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel method of assessing biodiversity
wherein samples are taken from the environment via water, sediment or air from which DNA …

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 …

Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

R Lücking, MC Aime, B Robbertse, AN Miller… - IMA fungus, 2020 - Springer
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the
second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …

The ambrosia symbiosis: from evolutionary ecology to practical management

J Hulcr, LL Stelinski - Annual review of entomology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The ambrosia beetle–fungus farming symbiosis is more heterogeneous than previously
thought. There is not one but many ambrosia symbioses. Beetle-fungus specificity is clade …

The microbiome of pest insects: it is not just bacteria

K Gurung, B Wertheim… - Entomologia …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Insects are associated with multiple microbes that have been reported to influence various
aspects of their biology. Most studies in insects, including pest species, focus on the …

Metabarcoding: A powerful tool to investigate microbial communities and shape future plant protection strategies

A Abdelfattah, A Malacrinò, M Wisniewski, SO Cacciola… - Biological Control, 2018 - Elsevier
Microorganisms are the main drivers shaping the functioning and equilibrium of all
ecosystems, contributing to nutrient cycling, primary production, litter decomposition, and …

A place for host–microbe symbiosis in the comparative physiologist's toolbox

KD Kohl, HV Carey - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
Although scientists have long appreciated that metazoans evolved in a microbial world, we
are just beginning to appreciate the profound impact that host-associated microbes have on …

Relationships among wood‐boring beetles, fungi, and the decomposition of forest biomass

J Skelton, MA Jusino, PS Carlson, K Smith… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A prevailing paradigm in forest ecology is that wood‐boring beetles facilitate wood decay
and carbon cycling, but empirical tests have yielded mixed results. We experimentally …

Ten reasons why a sequence-based nomenclature is not useful for fungi anytime soon

M Thines, PW Crous, MC Aime, T Aoki, L Cai, KD Hyde… - IMA fungus, 2018 - Springer
The large number of species still to be discovered in fungi, together with an exponentially
growing number of environmental sequences that cannot be linked to known taxa, has …

Assessment of passive traps combined with high-throughput sequencing to study airborne fungal communities

J Aguayo, C Fourrier-Jeandel, C Husson… - Applied and …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Techniques based on high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of environmental DNA have
provided a new way of studying fungal diversity. However, these techniques suffer from a …