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Cycad-feeding insects share a core gut microbiome

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Economy of scale: third partner strengthens a keystone ant-plant mutualism

(2018) Kirsten M. Prior et al.   ECOLOGY

Evaluating the use of stable isotope analysis to infer the feeding ecology of a growing US gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) population

(2018) Jacob E. Lerner et al.   PLoS One

Ecological specialization is associated with genetic structure in the ant-associated butterfly family Lycaenidae

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Unveiling community patterns and trophic niches of tropical and temperate ants using an integrative framework of field data, stable isotopes and fatty acids

(2018) Felix B. Rosumek et al.   PeerJ

Approaches to integrating genetic data into ecological networks

(2018) Elizabeth L. Clare et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

When to use NGS or diagnostic PCR in diet analyses

(2018) Oskar Rennstam Rubbmark et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Methods to identify the prey of invertebrate predators in terrestrial field studies

(2017) Klaus Birkhofer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Isotopic fractionation with morphological change and sexual specificity in the lappet mothEuthrix potatoria

(2016) Nozomu Sato et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Dissecting host-associated communities with DNA barcodes

(2016) Christopher C. M. Baker et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular detection of invertebrate prey in vertebrate diets: trophic ecology of Caribbean island lizards

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores

(2015) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metamorphosis Alters Contaminants and Chemical Tracers in Insects: Implications for Food Webs

(2014) Johanna M. Kraus et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Sources of variation in small rodent trophic niche: new insights from DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis

(2014) Eeva M. Soininen et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.5: a metadata management system based on a four level (meta)genome project classification

(2014) T.B.K. Reddy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Association between the African lycaenid,Anthene usamba, and an obligate acacia ant,Crematogaster mimosae

(2013) Dino J. Martins et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Minimization of chloroplast contamination in 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing of insect herbivore bacterial communities

(2013) Alissa S. Hanshew et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

The Effect of Primer Choice and Short Read Sequences on the Outcome of 16S rRNA Gene Based Diversity Studies

(2013) Jonas Ghyselinck et al.   PLoS One

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Identifying trophic variation in a marine suspension feeder: DNA- and stable isotope-based dietary analysis in Mytilus spp.

(2012) Aaron P. Maloy et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the ome-ome

(2012) Daniel McDonald et al.   GigaScience

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing

(2011) FRANCOIS POMPANON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Isotopic fractionation in a large herbivorous insect, the Auckland tree weta

(2010) Priscilla M. Wehi et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Revolution in food web analysis and trophic ecology: diet analysis by DNA and stable isotope analysis

(2009) L. CARREON-MARTINEZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Successful Conservation of a ThreatenedMaculineaButterfly

(2009) J. A. Thomas et al.   SCIENCE