Spider: SPecies IDentity and Evolution in R is a new R package implementing a number of
useful analyses for DNA barcoding studies and associated research into species delimitation …

Microbes can be an important source of phenotypic plasticity in insects. Insect physiology,
behaviour, and ecology are influenced by individual variation in the microbial communities …

Modern monocultural agro-ecosystems can be perceived as a simplification of natural
ecosystems, where a single plant species is usually grown over vast areas. In these systems, it …

DNA barcoding remains a challenge when applied to diet analyses, ancient DNA studies,
environmental DNA samples and, more generally, in any cases where DNA samples have not …

The use of DNA data is ubiquitous across animal sciences. DNA may be obtained from an
organism for a myriad of reasons including identification and distinction between cryptic …

… zealandica larvae fed can affect the fitness of the larvae (Lefort et al. 2015; Lefort et al. 2014)…
Lefort et al. (2014) also suggested the possible occurrence of several races of this species …

Deciphering the amount of work provided by different co-authors of a scientific paper has
been a recurrent problem in science. Despite the myriad of metrics available, the scientific …

Despite the negative impact that many scarab larvae have on agro‐ecosystems, very little
attention has been paid to their taxonomy. Their often extremely similar morphological …

The study of animal diets has benefited from the rise of high-throughput DNA sequencing
applied to stomach content or faecal samples. The latter can be fresh samples used to …

Following the introduction of new host plants, rapid evolutionary changes in invasive
phytophagous insects can sometimes result in sympatric speciation. The underlying processes and …