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Open AccessFecal metagenomics for the simultaneous assessment of diet, parasites, and population genetics of an understudied primate
Rapid habitat loss and degradation are responsible for population decline in a growing number of species. Understanding the natural history of these species is important for designing conservation strategies, ...
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No evidence for mitochondrial genetic variability in the largest population of critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys in Vietnam
The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) with a global population of <250 is listed as critically endangered. It is endemic to northeastern Vietnam and was feared extinct until its rediscovery in 19...
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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...
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Open AccessAvailability of orchid mycorrhizal fungi on roadside trees in a tropical urban landscape
Urban expansion threatens biodiversity worldwide, therefore urban spaces need to be amenable to biodiversity conservation. On trees in urban environments, natural colonisation and successful translocation of e...
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Open AccessFaecal DNA to the rescue: Shotgun sequencing of non-invasive samples reveals two subspecies of Southeast Asian primates to be Critically Endangered species
A significant number of Southeast Asian mammal species described in the 19th and 20th century were subsequently synonymized and are now considered subspecies. Many are affected by rapid habitat loss which creates...
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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 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 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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Scalable, Cost-Effective, and Decentralized DNA Barcoding with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing
DNA barcodes are useful in biodiversity research, but sequencing barcodes with dye termination methods (“Sanger sequencing”) has been so time-consuming and expensive that DNA barcodes are not as widely used as...
