Amrita Srivathsan

The paper presents an open-source workflow to recover and organize barcoded vouchers for ecological and evolutionary research, enabling efficient linking of specimens to molecular data and metadata.

This study evaluates how lysis methods, spike-ins, and sample processing affect the accuracy of insect metabarcoding for species occurrence and abundance.

IntegraTax is a tool that integrates DNA data with other evidence to determine species boundaries through clustering, visualization, and annotation.

UITOTO generates and validates molecular diagnoses for species descriptions by identifying and testing Diagnostic Molecular Combinations (DMCs) across multiple datasets.

The paper evaluates nanopore sequencing for eDNA metabarcoding in Zambia, showing it can match or exceed Illumina sequencing for biodiversity assessments in remote areas.

The paper analyzes DNA barcode data from 1.35 million flying insect specimens to show that dominant insect families exhibit weak or inverse latitudinal diversity gradients, challenging traditional ecological expectations.

The paper uses DNA barcoding to study scuttle flies in Sweden, revealing high diversity and showing that climate factors strongly influence their distribution.

This study evaluates the impact of non-destructive DNA extraction using HotSHOT on microbiome reconstruction in insect specimens, finding it suitable for community composition but less reliable for abundance estimates.

The paper uses megabarcoding to show that two Diptera taxa have distinct spatio-temporal distributions along an elevational gradient in a temperate forest.

The paper uses MinION sequencing to analyze seafood samples in Singapore, revealing mislabelling issues and highlighting the need for better labelling guidelines.

The paper develops a MinION-based pipeline for DNA barcoding that generates accurate barcodes for up to 1000 specimens per flowcell at a low cost.