Molecular Ecology Resources

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Ecology Resources is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage73
Stomach Content DNA (scDNA) Detection and Quantification for Predator Diet Assessment Using High‐Throughput Nanofluidic Chip Technology: Species‐Specific qPCR Assay Pa66
Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Loach Goby Rhyacichthys aspro Offers Insights Into Gobioidei Evolution66
detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data65
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes62
The endangered White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) genome reveals low diversity and heterogenous patterns of differentiation61
Good from far, but far from good: The impact of a reference genome on evolutionary inference61
Molecular assays of pollen use consistently reflect pollinator visitation patterns in a system of flowering plants61
Chromosome‐scale assembly and whole‐genome sequencing of 266 giant panda roundworms provide insights into their evolution, adaptation and potential drug targets53
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation52
The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies50
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference49
Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids46
A minimally invasive, field‐applicable CRISPR/Cas biosensor to aid in the detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative fungal agent of white‐nose syndrome in bats45
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community44
Alignment‐free methods for polyploid genomes: Quick and reliable genetic distance estimation43
An Innovative Binding‐Protein‐Based dsRNA Extraction Method: Comparison of Cost‐Effectiveness of Virus Detection Methods Using High‐Throughput Sequencing43
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level41
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light41
A chromosome‐scale genome assembly and annotation of the spring orchid (Cymbidium goeringii)40
Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices40
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs39
An Accessible Metagenomic Strategy Allows for Better Characterisation of Invertebrate Bulk Samples39
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers38
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics37
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems37
Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller‐size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics36
metaPR2: A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists36
MaxTemp: A Method to Maximise Precision of the Temporal Method for Estimating Ne in Genetic Monitoring Programs35
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Beware of Plant DNA in Animal Dietary Metabarcoding: Lessons From a Strictly Insectivorous Bat34
The chromosome‐scale assembly of the Canary Islands endemic spiderDysdera silvatica(Arachnida, Araneae) sheds light on the origin and genome structure of chemoreceptor gene families in chelicer34
Towards Large‐Scale Museomics Projects: A Cost‐Effective and High‐Throughput Extraction Method for Obtaining Historical DNA From Museum Insect Specimens34
Improved genome assembly of Chinese shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) suggests adaptation to the environment during evolution and domestication34
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Inference of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations is affected by single nucleotide polymorphism filtering methods, sample size and population structure33
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments: Guidelines, considerations and the new tool supeRbaits33
Simulating plasticity as a framework for understanding habitat selection and its role in adaptive capacity and extinction risk through an expansion of CDMetaPOP33
Single‐molecule long‐read sequencing reveals extensive genomic and transcriptomic variation between maize and its wild relative teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)33
Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples32
Chromosome‐level genome assembly reveals genomic architecture of northern range expansion in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)32
Deciphering the molecular signal from past and alive bacterial communities in aquatic sedimentary archives32
A needle in a haystack: A new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)32
SPEDE‐sampler: An R Shiny application to assess how methodological choices and taxon sampling can affect Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent output and interpretation32
Batch effects in population genomic studies with low‐coverage whole genome sequencing data: Causes, detection and mitigation31
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Evaluating the Benefits and Limits of Multiple Displacement Amplification With Whole‐Genome Oxford Nanopore Sequencing31
Monitoring of multiple fish species by quantitative environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys over two summer seasons31
Comparing eDNA and Transect Methods for Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment in Lakes and Ponds31
A comprehensive framework for detecting copy number variants from single nucleotide polymorphism data: ‘rCNV’, a versatile r package for paralogue and CNV detection30
Pedigree simulations reveal that maternity assignment is reliable in populations with conspecific brood parasitism, incomplete parental sampling and kin structure30
The proof is in the poo: Non‐invasive method to detect endoparasitic infection30
Comparative analysis of fish environmental DNA reveals higher sensitivity achieved through targeted sequence‐based metabarcoding30
Species discrimination in Schima (Theaceae): Next‐generation super‐barcodes meet evolutionary complexity30
Assessing the impact of USER‐treatment on hyRAD capture applied to ancient DNA29
MycoAI: Fast and accurate taxonomic classification for fungal ITS sequences29
Proteomic fingerprinting enables quantitative biodiversity assessments of species and ontogenetic stages in Calanus congeners (Copepoda, Crustacea) from the Arctic Ocean29
Performance of DNA metabarcoding, standard barcoding and morphological approaches in the identification of insect biodiversity28
GenAPoPop 1.0: A user‐friendly software to analyse genetic diversity and structure from partially clonal and selfed autopolyploid organisms28
The great tit HapMap project: A continental‐scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird28
Contemporary Ne estimation using temporally spaced data with linked loci27
Evaluating the role of reference‐genome phylogenetic distance on evolutionary inference27
The Long and the Short of It: Nanopore‐Based eDNA Metabarcoding of Marine Vertebrates Works; Sensitivity and Species‐Level Assignment Depend on Amplicon Lengths27
DNA methylation‐based biomarkers for ageing long‐lived cetaceans27
pr2‐primers: An 18S rRNA primer database for protists27
Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies27
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When barcoding fails: Genome chimerization (admixing) and reticulation obscure phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships26
Genomic Prediction of Individual Inbreeding Levels for the Management of Genetic Diversity in Populations With Small Effective Size26
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A Long‐Term Ecological Research Data Set From the Marine Genetic Monitoring Program ARMSMBON 2018–202026
Chromosome‐level genome of Entada phaseoloides provides insights into genome evolution and biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins26
Evolutionary history and seascape genomics of Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) across environmental gradients in the North Atlantic and adjacent waters25
Coalescent‐based species delimitation meets deep learning: Insights from a highly fragmented cactus system25
Detecting clonemate pairs in multicellular diploid clonal species based on a shared heterozygosity index25
Non‐invasive age estimation based on faecal DNA using methylation‐sensitive high‐resolution melting for Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins25
Bee foraging preferences, microbiota and pathogens revealed by direct shotgun metagenomics of honey25
Replicate DNA metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages25
Do not be scared of the genome's 5th base—Explaining phenotypic variability and evolutionary dynamics through DNA methylation analysis25
Recovering the genomes hidden in museum wet collections25
Genotyping‐in‐thousands by sequencing (GT‐seq) of noninvasive faecal and degraded samples: A new panel to enable ongoing monitoring of Canadian polar bear populations24
A roadmap to robust discriminant analysis of principal components24
Improved high‐throughput MHC typing for non‐model species using long‐read sequencing24
COInr and mkCOInr: Building and customizing a nonredundant barcoding reference database from BOLD and NCBI using a semi‐automated pipeline24
Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: A case study on beach meiofauna23
Lessons from assembling UCEs: A comparison of common methods and the case of Clavinomia (Halictidae)23
Allelic bias when performing in‐solution enrichment of ancient human DNA23
A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes23
Quantifying uncertainty in inferences of landscape genetic resistance due to choice of individual‐based genetic distance metric23
Detection and population genomics of sea turtle species via noninvasive environmental DNA analysis of nesting beach sand tracks and oceanic water22
Plastid Genome Assembly Using Long‐read data22
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Environmental RNA can distinguish life stages in amphibian populations22
On‐site environmental DNA detection of species using ultrarapid mobile PCR22
ParAquaSeq, a Database of Ecologically Annotated rRNA Sequences Covering Zoosporic Parasites Infecting Aquatic Primary Producers in Natural and Industrial Systems22
Chromosome‐scale genome assembly of areca palm (Areca catechu)21
Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free‐living relative21
Unlocking inaccessible historical genomes preserved in formalin21
The unknown unknown: A framework for assessing environmental DNA assay specificity against unsampled taxa21
Phylogenomic and syntenic data demonstrate complex evolutionary processes in early radiation of the rosids21
Leveraging an existing whole‐genome resequencing population data set to characterize toll‐like receptor gene diversity in a threatened bird21
Metabarcoding using nanopore long‐read sequencing for the unbiased characterization of apicomplexan haemoparasites21
SLRfinder: A method to detect candidate sex‐linked regions with linkage disequilibrium clustering21
Testing the applicability of environmental DNA metabarcoding to landscape genetics21
The accuracy of predicting maladaptation to new environments with genomic data20
FreshOmics: A manually curated and standardized –omics database for investigating freshwater microbiomes20
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A collaborative backbone resource for comparative studies of subterranean evolution: The World Asellidae database20
Missing genotype imputation in non‐model species using self‐organizing maps20
Beyond Presence and Absence: Using eDNA and Microsatellite Genotyping to Estimate Densities of Microscopic Life Forms in Wild Populations20
Pseudoreplication in genomic‐scale data sets20
New deep learning‐based methods for visualizing ecosystem properties using environmental DNA metabarcoding data20
MOSCA 2.0: A bioinformatics framework for metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics data analysis and visualization19
A dynamic ancestral graph model and GPU‐based simulation of a community based on metagenomic sampling19
A bioinformatic toolkit to simultaneously identify sex and sex‐linked regions19
Genome architecture used to supplement species delineation in two cryptic marine ciliates19
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Identification and quantification of chimeric sequencing reads in a highly multiplexed RAD‐seq protocol19
Tools and applications for integrative analysis of DNA methylation in social insects19
An exploration of assembly strategies and quality metrics on the accuracy of the rewarewa (Knightia excelsa) genome18
Environmental DNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish in Malaysian tropical rivers using short‐read nanopore sequencing as a potential biomonitoring tool18
Launching insectphylo.org; a new hub facilitating construction and use of synthesis molecular phylogenies of insects18
MuDoGeR: Multi‐Domain Genome recovery from metagenomes made easy18
Assessing the limits of local ancestry inference from small reference panels18
SEGUL: Ultrafast, memory‐efficient and mobile‐friendly software for manipulating and summarizing phylogenomic datasets18
High‐quality genomes reveal significant genetic divergence and cryptic speciation in the model organism Folsomia candida (collembola)18
Using metatranscriptomics to estimate the diversity and composition of zooplankton communities18
Detailed DNA barcoding of mayflies in a small European country proved how far we are from having comprehensive barcode reference libraries18
Conservation in a litre of air18
Influence of RNA‐Seq library construction, sampling methods, and tissue harvesting time on gene expression estimation17
Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding17
The year of the tiger and the year of tiger genomes!17
CRISPR‐Cas9 enrichment, a new strategy in microbial metagenomics to investigate complex genomic regions: The case of an environmental integron17
A targeted amplicon sequencing panel to simultaneously identify mosquito species and Plasmodium presence across the entire Anopheles genus16
Contemporary issues, current best practice and ways forward in soil protist ecology16
Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctori16
Testing genome skimming for species discrimination in the large and taxonomically difficult genus Rhododendron16
The WZA: A window‐based method for characterizing genotype–environment associations16
Correction to “epiGBS2: Improvements and Evaluation of Highly Multiplexed, epiGBS‐Based Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing”16
TransPi—a comprehensive TRanscriptome ANalysiS PIpeline for de novo transcriptome assembly16
Correcting for Bias in Estimates of θw$$ {\theta}_w $$ and Tajima's D$$ D $$ From Missing Data in Next‐Generation Sequencing16
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Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals15
Management and conservation implications of cryptic population substructure for two commercially exploited fishes (Merluccius spp.) in southern Africa15
Species delimitation with limited sampling: An example from rare trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia (Mygalomorphae, Halonoproctidae)15
Bayesian StairwayPlot for Inferring Single Population Demographic Histories From Site Frequency Spectra15
Genome and gene evolution of seahorse species revealed by the chromosome‐level genome of Hippocampus abdominalis15
A Short‐Read Amplicon Sequencing Protocol and Bioinformatic Pipeline for Ecological Surveillance of Dipteran Disease Vectors15
High quality haplotype‐resolved genome assemblies of Populus tomentosa Carr., a stabilized interspecific hybrid species widespread in Asia15
Exhaustive reanalysis of barcode sequences from public repositories highlights ongoing misidentifications and impacts taxa diversity and distribution15
Inferring the timing and strength of natural selection and gene migration in the evolution of chicken from ancient DNA data14
RIDGE, a tool tailored to detect gene flow barriers across species pairs14
Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples14
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Machine learning in molecular ecology14
Efficiency of eDNA and iDNA in assessing vertebrate diversity and its abundance14
A High‐Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large‐Scale Sample Screening14
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Who are you? A framework to identify and report genetic sample mix‐ups14
RNA allows identifying the consumption of carrion prey14
A molecular‐based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland14
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Individual haplotyping of whale sharks from seawater environmental DNA14
DNA barcodes highlight genetic diversity patterns in rodents from lowland desert and Andean areas in Argentina13
Genetic variation and domestication of horses revealed by 10 chromosome‐level genomes and whole‐genome resequencing13
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind: Blow sampling provides a new dimension to whale population monitoring13
DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids13
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolutionary history of cement protein genes of barnacles from intertidal to deep‐sea hydrothermal vents13
Delimiting the rare, endangered and actively speciating13
A chromosomal level genome sequence for Quasipaa spinosa (Dicroglossidae) reveals chromosomal evolution and population diversity13
Environmental DNA phylogeography: Successful reconstruction of phylogeographic patterns of multiple fish species from cups of water13
HMS‐S‐S: A tool for the identification of Sulphur metabolism‐related genes and analysis of operon structures in genome and metagenome assemblies13
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Pedicularis kansuensis illuminates genome evolution of facultative parasitic plant13
Macrobial airborne environmental DNA analysis: A review of progress, challenges, and recommendations for an emerging application13
A guide to avian museomics: Insights gained from resequencing hundreds of avian study skins13
Temporal Variability in Effective Size (N̂e) Identifies Potential Sources of Discrepancies Between Mark Recapture and Close Kin Mark Recapture Estimates of Population Abundance13
Estimation of spatial demographic maps from polymorphism data using a neural network13
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of the mirid predator Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae), an important natural enemy in the rice ecosystem13
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Scaling‐up RADseq methods for large datasets of non‐invasive samples: Lessons for library construction and data preprocessing13
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Affordable de novo generation of fish mitogenomes using amplification‐free enrichment of mitochondrial DNA and deep sequencing of long fragments13
A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis13
Next‐generation bioinformatics: An ultrafast and user‐friendly tool for phylogenomic data exploration13
quickLD: An efficient software for linkage disequilibrium analyses13
An empirical test of the estimation of historical effective population size using Drosophila melanogaster13
Quantitative assessment of reef foraminifera community from metabarcoding data13
A Post‐Mortem Molecular Damage Profile in the Ancient Human Mitochondrial DNA12
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of a triploid poplar Populus albaBerolinensis12
Phylogenomic analyses of the genusDrosophilareveals genomic signals of climate adaptation12
Chromosome‐level genomes of two armyworms, Mythimna separata and Mythimna loreyi, provide insights into the biosynthesis and reception of sex pheromones12
Next‐Generation Snow Leopard Population Assessment Tool: Multiplex‐PCR SNP Panel for Individual Identification From Faeces12
Application of palaeogenetic techniques to historic mollusc shells reveals phylogeographic structure in a New Zealand abalone12
Taxon‐specific or universal? Using target capture to study the evolutionary history of rapid radiations12
Utilizing paralogues for phylogenetic reconstruction has the potential to increase species tree support and reduce gene tree discordance in target enrichment data12
Polly: An R package for genotyping microsatellites and detecting highly polymorphic DNA markers from short‐read data12
Integration of De Novo Chromosome‐Level Genome and Population Resequencing of Peganum (Nitrariaceae): A Case Study of Speciation and Evolutionary Trajectories in Arid Central Asia12
CCS‐Consensuser: A Haplotype‐Aware Consensus Generator for PacBio Amplicon Sequences12
Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing12
Identifying loci under selection via explicit demographic models12
The chromosome‐level genome assembly of the Japanese yellowtail jack Seriola aureovittata provides insights into genome evolution and efficient oxygen transport11
EntoSieve: Automated Size‐Sorting of Insect Bulk Samples to Aid Accurate Megabarcoding and Metabarcoding11
Performance of DNA Metabarcoding vs. Morphological Methods for Assessing Intertidal Turf and Foliose Algae Diversity11
Maintenance of genetic diversity in subdivided populations using genomic coancestry matrices11
Unrecognised DNA Degradation in Flash‐Frozen Genetic Samples in Natural History Collections11
Morphological and taxonomic diversity of mesozooplankton is an important driver of carbon export fluxes in the ocean11
Joint identification of sex and sex‐linked scaffolds in non‐model organisms using low depth sequencing data11
A Molecular Survey of the Occurrence of Coffee Berry Disease Resistant Coffee Cultivars Near the Wild Gene Pool of Arabica Coffee in Its Region of Origin in Southwest Ethiopia11
Estimating predation rates from molecular gut content analysis11
Hi‐C scaffolded short‐ and long‐read genome assemblies of the California sea lion are broadly consistent for syntenic inference across 45 million years of evolution11
Genomic and Methylomic Signatures Associated With the Maintenance of Genome Stability and Adaptive Evolution in Two Closely Allied Wolf Spiders11
Environmental DNA methylation of Lymnaea stagnalis varies with age and is hypermethylated compared to tissue DNA11
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Correction to “Quantifying Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Diversity: A Computational Approach”11
Integrating Pool‐seq uncertainties into demographic inference11
A Snakemake Toolkit for the Batch Assembly, Annotation and Phylogenetic Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes and Ribosomal Genes From Genome Skims of Museum Collections11
A novel assembly pipeline and functional annotations for targeted sequencing: A case study on the globally threatened Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia: Unionida)11
Transcriptome‐wide SNPs for Botrychium lunaria ferns enable fine‐grained analysis of ploidy and population structure10
Finding the perfect pairs: A matchmaking of plant markers and primers for multi‐marker eDNA metabarcoding10
Evolution of olfactory receptor superfamily in bats based on high throughput molecular modelling10
Too Far From Relatives? Impact of the Genetic Distance on the Success of Exon Capture in Phylogenomics10
CRISPR‐Cas9‐mediated host signal reduction for 18S metabarcoding of host‐associated eukaryotes10
One metric or many? Refining the analytical framework of landscape resistance estimation in individual‐based landscape genetic analyses10
A chromosomal assembly of the soybean cyst nematode genome10
Spatial metabolomics reveal divergent cardenolide processing in the monarch (Danaus plexippus) and the common crow butterfly (Euploea core)10
Guidelines for standardizing the application of discriminant analysis of principal components to genotype data10
Effect of reduced genomic representation on using runs of homozygosity for inbreeding characterization10
HiMAP2: Identifying phylogenetically informative genetic markers from diverse genomic resources10
Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation10
Systematic review and meta‐analysis: Water type and temperature affect environmental DNA decay10
Just keep it simple? Benchmarking the accuracy of taxonomy assignment software in metabarcoding studies10
Invertebrates for vertebrate biodiversity monitoring: Comparisons using three insect taxa as iDNA samplers10
Massive genome investigations reveal insights of prevalent introgression for environmental adaptation and triterpene biosynthesis in Ganoderma10
Extensive sequence divergence between the reference genomes of two zebrafish strains, Tuebingen and AB10
Toward absolute abundance for conservation applications: Estimating the number of contributors via microhaplotype genotyping of mixed‐DNA samples10
mapmixture: An R package and web app for spatial visualisation of admixture and population structure9
NMπ 2.0: Software update to minimize the risk of false positives among determinants of reproductive success9
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Diet preferences based on sequence read count: The role of species interaction in tissue bias correction9
DNA barcoding of Cymbidium by genome skimming: Call for next‐generation nuclear barcodes9
The Impact of Whole‐Animal Fluid Preservation on the Observed Gut Microbiome of Vertebrates: Implications for the Use of Museum Specimens in Microbiome Research9
Transposable element annotation in non‐model species: The benefits of species‐specific repeat libraries using semi‐automated EDTA and DeepTE de novo pipelines9
Correcting for Replicated Genotypes May Introduce More Problems Than it Solves9
Towards a better future for DNA barcoding: Evaluating monophyly‐ and distance‐based species identification using COI gene fragments of Dacini fruit flies9
Plant DNA barcode library for native flowering plants in the arid region of northwestern China9
High‐quality haplotype‐resolved genome assembly for ring‐cup oak (Quercus glauca) provides insight into oaks demographic dynamics9
MrIML: Multi‐response interpretable machine learning to model genomic landscapes9
The population genetics of partial diapause, with applications to the aestivating malaria mosquito Anopheles coluzzii9
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