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View article: Benchmarking metabarcode sequence denoisers for improved invertebrate community diversity estimates
Benchmarking metabarcode sequence denoisers for improved invertebrate community diversity estimates Open
DNA metabarcoding is fast becoming a method of choice for the inventory and monitoring of community‐level arthropod biodiversity, with growing interest in the recovery of haplotype‐level variation within species from metabarcoding reads. D…
View article: Molecular Delimitation of Evolutionary Significant Units Reveals Hidden Geographic Drivers of Extinction Risk Within Island Arthropods
Molecular Delimitation of Evolutionary Significant Units Reveals Hidden Geographic Drivers of Extinction Risk Within Island Arthropods Open
Aim Globally, arthropod biodiversity is under threat, with increased risk of species‐level extinctions, and this threat is particularly acute on oceanic islands. A fundamental first step towards understanding extinction risk is to understa…
View article: Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals the sister relationship between the endogean Mediterranean raymondionymine weevils and the remaining 51,000+ Curculionidae (Coleoptera)
Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals the sister relationship between the endogean Mediterranean raymondionymine weevils and the remaining 51,000+ Curculionidae (Coleoptera) Open
The tribe Raymondionymini has long been neglected in phylogenetic studies. The tribe is characterized by uncertain monophyly, fluctuating taxonomic status, and a composition prone to instability. All raymondionymine weevils are wingless an…
View article: Towards a Canary Islands barcode database for soil biodiversity: revealing cryptic and unrecorded mite species diversity within insular soils
Towards a Canary Islands barcode database for soil biodiversity: revealing cryptic and unrecorded mite species diversity within insular soils Open
Soil arthropod diversity contributes to a high proportion of the total biodiversity on Earth. However, most soil arthropods are still undescribed, hindering our understanding of soil functioning and global biodiversity estimations. Invento…
View article: Inferring the ecological and evolutionary determinants of community genetic diversity
Inferring the ecological and evolutionary determinants of community genetic diversity Open
Understanding the relative contributions of ecological and evolutionary processes to the structuring of ecological communities is needed to improve our ability to predict how communities may respond to future changes in an increasingly hum…
View article: Towards understanding insect species introduction and establishment: A community‐level barcoding approach using island beetles
Towards understanding insect species introduction and establishment: A community‐level barcoding approach using island beetles Open
Since Darwin put forward his opposing hypotheses to explain the successful establishment of species in areas outside their native ranges, the preadaptation and competition‐relatedness hypotheses, known as Darwin's naturalization conundrum,…
View article: Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data
Towards a genetic theory of island biogeography: Inferring processes from multidimensional community‐scale data Open
Background MacArthur and Wilson's theory of island biogeography has been a foundation for obtaining testable predictions from models of community assembly and for developing models that integrate across scales and disciplines. Historically…
View article: Metabarcoding for biodiversity inventory blind spots: A test case using the beetle fauna of an insular cloud forest
Metabarcoding for biodiversity inventory blind spots: A test case using the beetle fauna of an insular cloud forest Open
Soils harbour a rich arthropod fauna, but many species are still not formally described (Linnaean shortfall) and the distribution of those already described is poorly understood (Wallacean shortfall). Metabarcoding holds much promise to fi…
View article: Collective and harmonized high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: Toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands
Collective and harmonized high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: Toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands Open
Current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes underlying island biodiversity is heavily shaped by empirical data from plants and birds, although arthropods comprise the overwhelming majority of known animal species, and as…
View article: Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: Insights from haplotype‐level community<scp>DNA</scp>metabarcoding within an oceanic island
Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: Insights from haplotype‐level community<span>DNA</span>metabarcoding within an oceanic island Open
Most of our understanding of island diversity comes from the study of aboveground systems, while the patterns and processes of diversification and community assembly for belowground biotas remain poorly understood. Here, we take advantage …
View article: Hidden island endemic species and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods
Hidden island endemic species and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods Open
Aim Specialisation to the soil environment is expected to constrain the spatial scale of diversification within animal lineages. In this context, flightless arthropod lineages, adapted to soil environments, but with broad geographical rang…
View article: Collective and harmonised high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands
Collective and harmonised high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands Open
Our current understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes underlying island biodiversity is heavily shaped by empirical data from plants and birds, although arthropods comprise the overwhelming majority of known animal species. Th…
View article: Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonized metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods
Toward global integration of biodiversity big data: a harmonized metabarcode data generation module for terrestrial arthropods Open
Metazoan metabarcoding is emerging as an essential strategy for inventorying biodiversity, with diverse projects currently generating massive quantities of community-level data. The potential for integrating across such data sets offers ne…
View article: Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests
Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests Open
Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in driving metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we quantify spatial connectivity in topographically and environm…
View article: Elemental composition, rare earths and minority elements in organic and conventional wines from volcanic areas: The Canary Islands (Spain)
Elemental composition, rare earths and minority elements in organic and conventional wines from volcanic areas: The Canary Islands (Spain) Open
The organic wine market is rapidly growing worldwide, both in terms of production and consumption. However, the scientific literature is not conclusive regarding differences in the elemental composition of wines according to their producti…
View article: Dispersal limitations and long‐term persistence drive differentiation from haplotypes to communities within a tropical sky‐island: Evidence from community metabarcoding
Dispersal limitations and long‐term persistence drive differentiation from haplotypes to communities within a tropical sky‐island: Evidence from community metabarcoding Open
Neutral theory proposes that dispersal stochasticity is one of the main drivers of local diversity. Haplotypes‐level genetic variation can now be efficiently sampled from across whole communities, thus making it possible to test neutral pr…
View article: Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation
Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation Open
Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and freshwater metazoan communities to provide rapid, accurate and high re…
View article: Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests
Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests Open
Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation in driving metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we quantify spatial connectivity in topographically and envir…
View article: Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests
Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests Open
Disentangling the relative role of environmental filtering and dispersal limitation in driving metacommunity structure across mountainous regions remains challenging, as the way we quantify spatial connectivity in topographically and envir…
View article: Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: towards bioinformatic harmonisation
Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: towards bioinformatic harmonisation Open
Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and freshwater metazoan communities to provide rapid, accurate and high re…
View article: Endogean beetles (Coleoptera) of Madagascar: deep soil sampling and illustrated overview
Endogean beetles (Coleoptera) of Madagascar: deep soil sampling and illustrated overview Open
This study addresses the diversity of deep soil beetles on the old continental island of Madagascar. We highlight Coleoptera as the only order of insects repeatedly occupying the deep soil (=endogean) habitat. We describe and illustrate so…
View article: FIGURE 3 in Endogean beetles (Coleoptera) of Madagascar: deep soil sampling and illustrated overview
FIGURE 3 in Endogean beetles (Coleoptera) of Madagascar: deep soil sampling and illustrated overview Open
FIGURE 3. Endogean beetles of Madagascar: Leiodidae (A) and Staphylinidae (B–F). B: Aleocharinae; C, D: Pselaphinae; E, F: Osoriinae. Samples: soilMD05 (A), soilMD25 (B), soilMD12 (C), soilMD05 (D), soilMD09 (E, F).
View article: Three new subterranean species of Baezia (Curculionidae, Molytinae) for the Canary Islands
Three new subterranean species of Baezia (Curculionidae, Molytinae) for the Canary Islands Open
The genus Baezia Alonso-Zarazaga & García, 1999 is endemic to the Canary Islands, where four species were known to date. Based on morphological evidence, three new species of Baezia are described in this study: Baezia aranfaybo García …
View article: Flightlessness in insects enhances diversification and determines assemblage structure across whole communities
Flightlessness in insects enhances diversification and determines assemblage structure across whole communities Open
Dispersal limitation has been recurrently suggested to shape both macroecological patterns and microevolutionary processes within invertebrates. However, because of potential interactions among biological, environmental, temporal, and spat…
View article: Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data
Validated removal of nuclear pseudogenes and sequencing artefacts from mitochondrial metabarcode data Open
Metabarcoding of Metazoa using mitochondrial genes may be confounded by both the accumulation of PCR and sequencing artefacts and the co‐amplification of nuclear mitochondrial pseudogenes (NUMTs). The application of read abundance threshol…
View article: Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis
Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis Open
High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it offers the potential for a much deeper understanding …
View article: Elemental composition, rare earths and minority elements in organic and conventional wines from volcanic areas: The Canary Islands (Spain)
Elemental composition, rare earths and minority elements in organic and conventional wines from volcanic areas: The Canary Islands (Spain) Open
The organic wine market is rapidly growing worldwide, both in terms of production and consumption. However, the scientific literature is not conclusive regarding differences in the elemental composition of wines according to their producti…
View article: Mitogenomic phylogenetics of <i>Diochus occultus</i> n. sp., a palaeoendemic endogean species within the tribe Diochini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)
Mitogenomic phylogenetics of <i>Diochus occultus</i> n. sp., a palaeoendemic endogean species within the tribe Diochini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) Open
The tribe Diochini has a worldwide distribution, with 2 and 74 epigean species within the genera Antarctothius and Diochus respectively. Recent phylogenetic studies suggest a sister relationship of Diochini and a lineage formed by Xantholi…
View article: Local-scale dispersal constraints promote spatial structure and arthropod diversity within a tropical sky-island
Local-scale dispersal constraints promote spatial structure and arthropod diversity within a tropical sky-island Open
Physical disruption of gene flow among mountains is commonly viewed as an important process for the generation of hyperdiverse tropical mountain biotas. However, the role of in situ diversification within mountains has been seldom explored…