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Open AccessConvergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity
Most of arthropod biodiversity is unknown to science. Consequently, it has been unclear whether insect communities around the world are dominated by the same or different taxa. This question can be answered th...
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Open AccessONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone
DNA barcodes are a useful tool for discovering, understanding, and monitoring biodiversity which are critical tasks at a time of rapid biodiversity loss. However, widespread adoption of barcodes requires cost-...
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Open AccessMangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity
The world’s fast disappearing mangrove forests have low plant diversity and are often assumed to also have a species-poor insect fauna. We here compare the tropical arthropod fauna across a freshwater swamp an...
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Open AccessRapid, large-scale species discovery in hyperdiverse taxa using 1D MinION sequencing
More than 80% of all animal species remain unknown to science. Most of these species live in the tropics and belong to animal taxa that combine small body size with high specimen abundance and large species ri...
