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Resolving the psyllid tree of life: phylogenomic analyses of the superfamily Psylloidea (Hemiptera) by Percy, Diana M., Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Sveinsson, Saemundur, Lemmon, Alan R., Lemmon, Emily Moriarty, Ouvrard, David, Burckhardt, Daniel

“…Understanding evolutionary relationships in the superfamily Psylloidea is challenging due to the lack of clear morphological synapomorphies for many groups…”
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Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet by Chua, Physilia Y. S., Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Lammers, Youri, Alsos, Inger G., Boessenkool, Sanne, Bohmann, Kristine

“…Metagenomics can generate data on the diet of herbivores, without the need for primer selection and PCR enrichment steps as is necessary in metabarcoding…”
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Shifting up a gear with iDNA: From mammal detection events to standardised surveys by Abrams, Jesse F., Hörig, Lisa A., Brozovic, Robert, Axtner, Jan, Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Mohamed, Azlan, Wong, Seth T., Sollmann, Rahel, Yu, Douglas W., Wilting, Andreas, Wheeler, Helen

“…Invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA), in combination with high throughput sequencing, has been proposed as a cost‐efficient and powerful tool to survey vertebrate…”
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Phylogenetic community ecology of soil biodiversity using mitochondrial metagenomics by Andújar, Carmelo, Arribas, Paula, Ruzicka, Filip, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Timmermans, Martijn J.T.N., Vogler, Alfried P.

“…High‐throughput DNA methods hold great promise for the study of taxonomically intractable mesofauna of the soil. Here, we assess species diversity and…”
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Merging two eDNA metabarcoding approaches and citizen‐science‐based sampling to facilitate fish community monitoring along vast Sub‐Saharan coastlines by Burian, Alfred, Bruce, Kat, Tovela, Erica, Bakker, Judith, Balcells, Laura, Bennett, Rhett, Chordekar, Sarah, Costa, Hugo M., Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Boer, Hugo, Ross‐Gillespie, Vere, Sacramento, Antonio, Sidat, Naseeba, Simbine, Luisa, Ready, Jonathan, Tang, Cuong, Mauvisseau, Quentin

“…The coastline of Sub‐Saharan Africa hosts highly diverse fish communities of great conservation value, which are also key resources for local livelihoods…”
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Validating the power of mitochondrial metagenomics for community ecology and phylogenetics of complex assemblages by Gómez‐Rodríguez, Carola, Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Timmermans, Martijn J. T. N., Baselga, Andrés, Vogler, Alfried P., Gilbert, M.

“…Summary The biodiversity of mixed‐species samples of arthropods can be characterized by shotgun sequencing of bulk genomic DNA and subsequent bioinformatics…”
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Marine sediment infauna‐based environmental assessment using metabarcoding identifies potential impact indicator species by Hale, Rachel, Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Bruce, Kat, Tang, Cuong Q., Maguire, Michael, Marsh, Maija K.

“…Developing large‐scale monitoring strategies for marine habitats with appropriate temporal and spatial resolution is challenging logistically and economically…”
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Intraspecific genetic variation in complex assemblages from mitochondrial metagenomics: comparison with DNA barcodes by Gómez‐Rodríguez, Carola, Timmermans, Martijn J. T. N., Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Vogler, Alfried P., Gilbert, M.

“…Summary Metagenomic shotgun sequencing, using Illumina technology, and de novo genome assembly of mixed field‐collected samples of invertebrates readily…”
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Building the Coleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with Linnaean classification by BOCAK, LADISLAV, BARTON, CHRISTOPHER, CRAMPTON‐PLATT, ALEX, CHESTERS, DOUGLAS, AHRENS, DIRK, VOGLER, ALFRIED P

“…The species representation of public databases is growing rapidly and permits increasingly detailed phylogenetic inferences. We present a supermatrix based on…”
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Shotgun mitogenomics across body size classes in a local assemblage of tropical Diptera: Phylogeny, species diversity and mitochondrial abundance spectrum by Choo, Le Qin, Crampton‐Platt, Alex, Vogler, Alfried P.

“…Mitochondrial genomes can be assembled readily from shotgun‐sequenced DNA mixtures of mass‐trapped arthropods (“mitochondrial metagenomics”), speeding up the…”
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Mitochondrial metagenomics: letting the genes out of the bottle by Crampton-Platt, Alex, Yu, Douglas W, Zhou, Xin, Vogler, Alfried P

“…'Mitochondrial metagenomics' (MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of…”
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Uncovering Trophic Interactions in Arthropod Predators through DNA Shotgun-Sequencing of Gut Contents by Paula, Débora P, Linard, Benjamin, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Srivathsan, Amrita, Timmermans, Martijn J T N, Sujii, Edison R, Pires, Carmen S S, Souza, Lucas M, Andow, David A, Vogler, Alfried P

“…Characterizing trophic networks is fundamental to many questions in ecology, but this typically requires painstaking efforts, especially to identify the diet…”
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An efficient and robust laboratory workflow and tetrapod database for larger scale environmental DNA studies by Axtner, Jan, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Hörig, Lisa A, Mohamed, Azlan, Xu, Charles C Y, Yu, Douglas W, Wilting, Andreas

“…The use of environmental DNA for species detection via metabarcoding is growing rapidly. We present a co-designed lab workflow and bioinformatic pipeline to…”
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Metagenome Skimming of Insect Specimen Pools: Potential for Comparative Genomics by Linard, Benjamin, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Gillett, Conrad P D T, Timmermans, Martijn J T N, Vogler, Alfried P

“…Metagenomic analyses are challenging in metazoans, but high-copy number and repeat regions can be assembled from low-coverage sequencing by "genome skimming,"…”
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A two-step metagenomics approach for the identification and mitochondrial DNA contig assembly of vertebrate prey from the blood meals of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) by Chua, Physilia Y. S., Carøe, Christian, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Reyes-Avila, Claudia S., Jones, Gareth, Streicker, Daniel G., Bohmann, Kristine

“…The feeding behaviour of the sanguivorous common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) facilitates the transmission of pathogens that can impact both human and…”
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Soup to Tree: The Phylogeny of Beetles Inferred by Mitochondrial Metagenomics of a Bornean Rainforest Sample by Crampton-Platt, Alex, Timmermans, Martijn J T N, Gimmel, Matthew L, Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan, Cockerill, Timothy D, Vun Khen, Chey, Vogler, Alfried P

“…In spite of the growth of molecular ecology, systematics and next-generation sequencing, the discovery and analysis of diversity is not currently integrated…”
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Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) by Gillett, Conrad P D T, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Timmermans, Martijn J T N, Jordal, Bjarte H, Emerson, Brent C, Vogler, Alfried P

“…Complete mitochondrial genomes have been shown to be reliable markers for phylogeny reconstruction among diverse animal groups. However, the relative…”
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Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet by Chua, Physilia Y. S, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Lammers, Youri, Alsos, Inger G, Boessenkool, Sanne, Bohmann, Kristine

“…Metagenomics can generate data on the diet of herbivores, without the need for primer selection and PCR enrichment steps as is necessary in metabarcoding…”
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The contribution of mitochondrial metagenomics to large-scale data mining and phylogenetic analysis of Coleoptera by Linard, Benjamin, Crampton-Platt, Alex, Moriniere, Jerome, Timmermans, Martijn J.T.N., Andújar, Carmelo, Arribas, Paula, Miller, Kirsten E., Lipecki, Julia, Favreau, Emeline, Hunter, Amie, Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola, Barton, Christopher, Nie, Ruie, Gillett, Conrad P.D.T., Breeschoten, Thijmen, Bocak, Ladislav, Vogler, Alfried P.

“…[Display omitted] •Assembly of nearly 2000 mitogenomes from metagenomics sequencing of bulk specimen of Coleoptera.•Data mining pipeline created for extraction…”
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Building the C oleoptera tree‐of‐life for >8000 species: composition of public DNA data and fit with L innaean classification by BOCAK, LADISLAV, BARTON, CHRISTOPHER, CRAMPTON‐PLATT, ALEX, CHESTERS, DOUGLAS, AHRENS, DIRK, VOGLER, ALFRIED P.

“…The species representation of public databases is growing rapidly and permits increasingly detailed phylogenetic inferences. We present a supermatrix based on…”
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