Search Results - "HALLWACHS, WINNIE"
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Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-09-2017)“…Many animals are inhabited by microbial symbionts that influence their hosts’ development, physiology, ecological interactions, and evolutionary…”
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Joining inventory by parataxonomists with DNA barcoding of a large complex tropical conserved wildland in northwestern Costa Rica
Published in PloS one (16-08-2011)“…The many components of conservation through biodiversity development of a large complex tropical wildland, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), thrive on…”
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Next‐generation DNA barcoding: using next‐generation sequencing to enhance and accelerate DNA barcode capture from single specimens
Published in Molecular ecology resources (01-09-2014)“…DNA barcoding is an efficient method to identify specimens and to detect undescribed/cryptic species. Sanger sequencing of individual specimens is the standard…”
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Simultaneous assessment of the macrobiome and microbiome in a bulk sample of tropical arthropods through DNA metasystematics
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-06-2014)“…Conventional assessments of ecosystem sample composition are based on morphology-based or DNA barcode identification of individuals. Both approaches are costly…”
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Massively parallel multiplex DNA sequencing for specimen identification using an Illumina MiSeq platform
Published in Scientific reports (17-04-2015)“…Genetic information is a valuable component of biosystematics, especially specimen identification through the use of species-specific DNA barcodes. Although…”
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A Sequel to Sanger: amplicon sequencing that scales
Published in BMC genomics (27-03-2018)“…Although high-throughput sequencers (HTS) have largely displaced their Sanger counterparts, the short read lengths and high error rates of most platforms…”
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tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-06-2010)“…We propose that the many different, but essentially similar, eye-like and face-like color patterns displayed by hundreds of species of tropical caterpillars…”
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Diversity and phylogenetic community structure of ants along a Costa Rican elevational gradient
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-08-2014)“…The diversity and phylogenetic community structure of many organisms is negatively affected by factors that covary with elevation. On the Pacific slope of the…”
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DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-01-2006)“…Although central to much biological research, the identification of species is often difficult. The use of DNA barcodes, short DNA sequences from a…”
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Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-08-2008)“…We DNA barcoded 2,597 parasitoid wasps belonging to 6 microgastrine braconid genera reared from parapatric tropical dry forest, cloud forest, and rain forest…”
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Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-10-2004)“…Astraptes fulgerator, first described in 1775, is a common and widely distributed neotropical skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). We combine 25 years…”
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Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica
Published in ZooKeys (01-01-2014)“…More than half a million specimens of wild-caught Lepidoptera caterpillars have been reared for their parasitoids, identified, and DNA barcoded over a period…”
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DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20-03-2007)“…Many species of tachinid flies are viewed as generalist parasitoids because what is apparently a single species of fly has been reared from many species of…”
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Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species
Published in ZooKeys (02-02-2021)“…Three new genera are described: (Proteropinae), (Rogadinae), and (Rogadinae). Keys are given for the New World genera of the following braconid subfamilies:…”
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DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-03-2006)“…Insect parasitoids are a major component of global biodiversity and affect the population dynamics of their hosts. However, identification of insect…”
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Description of a new genus for Euptychia hilara (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
Published in Zootaxa (04-09-2015)“…Based on external morphology, food plant records for caterpillars, and molecular analysis, Euptychia hilara (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) is removed from…”
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DNA barcodes and cryptic species of skipper butterflies in the genus Perichares in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-04-2008)“…DNA barcodes can be used to identify cryptic species of skipper butterflies previously detected by classic taxonomic methods and to provide first clues to the…”
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Diversity and phylogenetic community structure across elevation during climate change in a family of hyperdiverse neotropical beetles (Staphylinidae)
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-05-2021)“…Environmental stress from abiotic conditions imposes physiological limits on individuals within communities, and these stressful conditions can act as a filter…”
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A revolutionary protocol to describe understudied hyperdiverse taxa and overcome the taxonomic impediment
Published in Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift (25-07-2019)“…Here we elucidate and justify a DNA barcode approach to insect species description that can be applied to name tens of thousands of species of Ichneumonoidea…”
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Decoding Anotylus (Thomson 1859) Beetle Diversity: DNA and External Morphology Match in Área de Conservaciόn Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Published in Diversity (Basel) (01-08-2024)“…Taxonomy underpins biological research because names are needed for comparative analysis, conservation status, and public communication. Despite this, many…”
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