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 …

Microalgae biomasses are excellent sources of diverse bioactive compounds such as lipids,
polysaccharides, carotenoids, vitamins, phenolics and phycobiliproteins. Large-scale …

The shortage of reliable primary taxonomic data limits the description of biological taxa and
the understanding of biodiversity patterns and processes, complicating biogeographical …

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 …

New methods in taxonomy and systematics can influence the overall practice of formally
naming and describing biodiversity. DNA barcoding has been controversial since its …

Natural history collections are essential to a wide variety of studies in biology because they
maintain large collections of specimens and associated data, including genetic material (eg …

Integrative taxonomy is central to modern taxonomy and systematic biology, including
behavior, niche preference, distribution, morphological analysis, and DNA barcoding …

Fungi have successfully established themselves across seemingly every possible niche,
substrate, and biome. They are fundamental to biogeochemical cycling, interspecies …

DNA-based identification is vital for classifying biological specimens, yet methods to quantify
the uncertainty of sequence-based taxonomic assignments are scarce. Challenges arise …

Motivation Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses require multi-gene input files in
different formats, but there are few user-friendly programs facilitating the workflow of …