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The butterfly effect: geographic patterns of DNA barcode variation in subtropical Lepidoptera

by Natalí Attiná, Ezequiel Núñez Bustos, Darío A. Lijtmaer, Pablo L. Tubaro and Pablo D. Lavinia | Jul 31, 2020 | Research

Forest dynamics, spatial distribution patterns, and sampling scale are associated with mitochondrial DNA variation in Argentinian butterflies

Hunting for a water mite neotype in southern Norway

by Katherine Perry | Jul 24, 2020 | Research

Scientists rediscover lost specimens of water mite in Norway 120 years after they were first described

GBOL III: Dark Taxa

by Axel Hausmann, Lars Krogmann, Ralph S. Peters, Vera Rduch and Stefan Schmidt | Jul 10, 2020 | Research

Researchers launch new BIOSCAN project that aims to illuminate thousands of new insect species on Germany’s doorstep.

Spring into action: Life in Earth’s rarest soils under threat

by Helena Baird | Jun 4, 2020 | Research

Springtails (Collembola) in the Antarctic indicate that unique soil biodiversity in the region faces biotic homogenization due to increased human activity

Judge a caterpillar by what they eat, not where they’re found

by Axel Hausmann, Juliane Diller and Amelie Höcherl | May 6, 2020 | Research

Gut content analysis of Peruvian caterpillars reveals new insights into host-plant relationships and the methods used to examine species interactions key to BIOSCAN

Discovering ten new species of Paramyia Williston (Diptera: Milichiidae) in North America using DNA barcoding

by Valerie Levesque-Beaudin | Feb 27, 2020 | Research

Making the process of species identification more efficient by focusing morphological efforts using DNA-based tools

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ARCTIC BIOSCAN: SURVEY OF AN ARCTIC ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE MONITORING

A pilot survey of terrestrial arthropod communities in Nunavut has evaluated the efficiency of several standard collecting methods in the Canadian Arctic and has begun to gather important baseline biodiversity data.