Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding

New species in old mountains: integrative taxonomy reveals ten new species and extensive short-range endemism in Nesticus spiders (Araneae, Nesticidae) from the southern Appalachian Mountains

(2023) Marshal Hedin et al.   ZooKeys

Species delimitation, biogeography, and natural history of dwarf funnel web spiders (Mygalomorphae, Hexurellidae, Hexurella) from the United States / Mexico borderlands

(2023) Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas et al.   ZooKeys

Future of DNA-based insect monitoring

(2023) Physilia Y.S. Chua et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Increasing taxonomic diversity and spatial resolution clarifies opportunities for protecting imperiled species in the U.S.

(2022) Healy Hamilton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Towards Large-scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): resolving the data conundrum for dark taxa

(2022) Emily Hartop et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Multiple species delimitation approaches with COI barcodes poorly fit each other and morphospecies – An integrative taxonomy case of Sri Lankan Sericini chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2022) Uda Gedara Sasanka Lakmali Ranasinghe et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity of Parasitic Hymenoptera Across Sky Islands of Arkansas, United States

(2022) Allison F Monroe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

A DNA barcode reference library for endemic Ponto-Caspian amphipods

(2022) Denis Copilaş-Ciocianu et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecular ecology meets systematic conservation planning

(2022) Erica S. Nielsen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A New Species of the Southern Appalachian Genus Prespelea Park (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

(2022) Michael S. Caterino et al.   COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN

First report of the Euconnus Thomson subgenus Cladoconnus Reitter in the New World, represented by thirteen new Appalachian species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)

(2022) Michael S. Caterino   ZooKeys

Factors affecting the efficiency of molecular species delimitation in a species‐rich insect family

(2021) Giulia Magoga et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Sky islands of the Cameroon Volcanic Line support the westernmost clade of five new Typoderus weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae)

(2021) Vasily V. Grebennikov   Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny

A revision of the minor species group in the millipede genus Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae)

(2021) Jackson C. Means et al.   ZooKeys

Morphology and mini‐barcodes: The inclusion of larval sampling and NGS‐based barcoding improves robustness of ecological analyses of mosquito communities

(2021) Huiqing Yeo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evaluating species origins within tropical sky‐islands arthropod communities

(2021) Adriana Uscanga et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone

(2021) Amrita Srivathsan et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Arthropod dark taxa provide new insights into diversity responses to bark beetle infestations

(2021) Mareike Kortmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Longer is not always better: Optimizing barcode length for large-scale species discovery and identification

(2020) Darren Yeo et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Integrative species delimitation reveals cryptic diversity in the southern Appalachian Antrodiaetus unicolor (Araneae: Antrodiaetidae) species complex

(2020) Lacie G. Newton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coalescent-based species delimitation is sensitive to geographic sampling and isolation by distance

(2020) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

ASAP: Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning

(2020) Nicolas Puillandre et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Taxonomic synthesis of the eastern North American millipede genus Pseudopolydesmus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae), utilizing high-detail ultraviolet fluorescence imaging

(2019) Petra Sierwald et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revision of the spider genus Epiceraticelus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) with a description of a new species

(2019) MICHAEL L. DRANEY et al.   ZOOTAXA

Scaling up: A guide to high-throughput genomic approaches for biodiversity analysis

(2018) Teresita M. Porter et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards holomorphology in entomology: rapid and cost-effective adult-larva matching using NGS barcodes

(2018) Darren Yeo et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Apheloria polychroma, a new species of millipede from the Cumberland Mountains (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)

(2018) PAUL E. MAREK et al.   ZOOTAXA

Intricatonura fjellbergi, a New Peculiar Genus and Species of Neanurini (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae) from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

(2017) Adrian Smolis et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Strong spatial-genetic congruence between a wood-feeding cockroach and its bacterial endosymbiont, across a topographically complex landscape

(2017) Ryan C. Garrick et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biogeographical evidence for common vicariance and rare dispersal in a southern Appalachian harvestman (Sabaconidae, Sabacon cavicolens )

(2017) Marshal Hedin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A revision of Prespelea Park (Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae)

(2017) Michael S. Caterino et al.   ZooKeys

BBMerge – Accurate paired shotgun read merging via overlap

(2017) Brian Bushnell et al.   PLoS One

Climate change impacts on endemic, high-elevation lichens in a biodiversity hotspot

(2016) Jessica L. Allen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Life at the top: Long-term demography, microclimatic refugia, and responses to climate change for a high-elevation southern Appalachian endemic plant

(2016) Christopher Ulrey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Molecular species delimitation in the genus Eumerus (Diptera: Syrphidae)

(2016) A. Chroni et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Collecting in the Museum: New Species, Taxonomic Changes, and Range Extensions of Euplectite Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the Southeastern United States

(2016) Brittany E. Owens et al.   COLEOPTERISTS BULLETIN

$1 DNA barcodes for reconstructing complex phenomes and finding rare species in specimen-rich samples

(2015) Rudolf Meier et al.   CLADISTICS

Range-wide phylogeography of the four-toed salamander: out of Appalachia and into the glacial aftermath

(2015) Timothy A. Herman et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sky island diversification meets the multispecies coalescent - divergence in the spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga,Araneae, Mygalomorphae) on the highest peaks of southern Appalachia

(2015) Marshal Hedin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change

(2015) Wallace M. Meyer et al.   PLoS One

fuzzySim: applying fuzzy logic to binary similarity indices in ecology

(2015) A. Márcia Barbosa   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico

(2014) Robert L. Bezy et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Recent elevational range expansions in plethodontid salamanders (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) in the southern Appalachian Mountains

(2014) Matthew Moskwik   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Factors affecting species delimitations with the GMYC model: insights from a butterfly survey

(2013) Gerard Talavera et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Extreme mitochondrial population subdivision in southern Appalachian paleoendemic spiders (Araneae: Hypochilidae: Hypochilus), with implications for species delimitation

(2012) Robin Keith et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Multi-locus species delimitation in closely related animals and fungi: one marker is not enough

(2012) JULIAN R. DUPUIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Succession and disturbance in an endangered red spruce−Fraser fir forest in the southern Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina, USA

(2012) PB White et al.   Endangered Species Research

On the inappropriate use of Kimura-2-parameter (K2P) divergences in the DNA-barcoding literature

(2011) Amrita Srivathsan et al.   CLADISTICS

The evolution and age of populations of Scaphinotus petersi Roeschke on Arizona Sky Islands (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cychrini)

(2011) Karen Ober et al.   ZooKeys

Taxonomic Revision of Desmognathus wrighti (Caudata: Plethodontidae)

(2010) Erica J. Crespi et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

A revision of the Appalachian millipede genus Brachoria Chamberlin, 1939 (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Apheloriini)

(2010) PAUL E. MAREK   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The role of microarthropods in terrestrial decomposition: a meta-analysis of 40 years of litterbag studies

(2009) Christian Kampichler et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Molecular systematics of eastern North American Phalangodidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores), demonstrating convergent morphological evolution in caves

(2009) Marshal Hedin et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genetic variation and population structure in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri): a microsatellite assessment of young trees

(2008) Kevin M. Potter et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Multigenic phylogeographic divergence in the paleoendemic southern Appalachian opilionid Fumontana deprehendor Shear (Opiliones, Laniatores, Triaenonychidae)

(2007) Steven M. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION