S. N. Kutty

Network analysis with either Illumina or MinION reveals that detecting vertebrate species requires metabarcoding of iDNA from a diverse fly community

The paper uses metabarcoding of iDNA from dung and carrion flies to detect vertebrate species in a swamp forest, finding that 18 of 20 vertebrate species are detectable within 150m of a road.

Global convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity

The paper analyzes global flying insect diversity using DNA sequencing from Malaise traps, finding 20 families dominate species diversity worldwide despite high species turnover and taxonomic neglect.

Towards environmental DNA-based bioassessment of freshwater reservoirs with small volumes of water: robust molecular protocols

The paper optimizes eDNA protocols for small water volumes to assess freshwater reservoirs, finding that 15 mL captures reservoir-specific differences despite technical replicate variance.

MinION barcodes: biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone

This paper introduces a low-cost, accessible workflow and software for DNA barcoding using MinION sequencing, achieving high accuracy comparable to Sanger and Illumina methods.

Rapid, large-scale species discovery in hyperdiverse taxa using 1D MinION sequencing

This paper demonstrates the use of MinION sequencing for rapid, large-scale species discovery in the hyperdiverse Phoridae fly family, identifying over 650 species from a single trap in Uganda.