Karol H. Nowak

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

This study shows that insect COI barcoding data can reliably detect Wolbachia presence, provide phylogenetic insights, and guide metagenomic sampling.

The paper characterizes fungal and bacterial communities in the infrabuccal pockets of Formica polyctena ants using multiple methods, finding diverse fungal genera and stable bacterial communities.

The paper uses multi-target amplicon sequencing to study interactions between Entomophthora fungi, their dipteran hosts, and associated bacteria in South Greenland, revealing host-specificity patterns and bacterial community differences.

This study uses a novel multi-target amplicon sequencing approach to analyze microbiota in wild scuttle flies, revealing significant variation in bacterial abundance and composition across host species and genotypes.

The paper analyzes microbial communities in Greenland mosquitoes, finding low abundance and no core microbiota, with high diversity and sex-specific associations.

The paper introduces a high-throughput quantitative multi-target amplicon sequencing workflow to improve microbial community profiling in wild insects, addressing contamination and identification issues.