Marko Mutanen

The paper uses phylogenetic analysis of conifer sawflies to test hypotheses about the evolutionary order of aposematism and gregariousness, finding support for aposematism evolving before gregariousness.

The paper identifies multiple functional COI barcode variants in North European sawflies using high-throughput sequencing, challenging the one-barcode-per-specimen assumption in DNA barcoding.

The paper assesses DNA barcoding's utility for identifying phorid flies, finding it effective but limited by reference sequence accuracy and highlighting Megaselia as a dark taxon.

One year of COI metabarcoding of 197 Malaise traps across Sweden detected 1,535 of 2,990 known Lepidoptera species, plus specimen-validated new country records, range extensions and putative undescribed species.