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    Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem

    Our world is becoming increasingly urbanized with a growing human population concentrated around cities. The expansion of urban areas has important consequences for biodiversity, yet the abiotic drivers of bio...

    Jayme M. M. Lewthwaite, Teagan M. Baiotto, Brian V. Brown in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    ONTbarcoder 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-...

    Amrita Srivathsan, Leshon Lee, Kazutaka Katoh, Emily Hartop in BMC Biology (2021)

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    Rapid, 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...

    Amrita Srivathsan, Emily Hartop, Jayanthi Puniamoorthy, Wan Ting Lee in BMC Biology (2019)