From DNA barcodes to biomes

Today is a public holiday in Canada, so I'll keep posting to a minimum. However, I don't want to miss the opportunity to announce a special them issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The issue comprises of contributions derived from presentations at the 6th International Barcode of Life conference. There is even one with me as co-author. All of them are Open Access. Enjoy reading:

Introduction: From writing to reading the encyclopedia of life

Paul D. N. Hebert, Peter M. Hollingsworth, and Mehrdad Hajibabaei

Opinion piece: DNA barcoding and taxonomy: dark taxa and dark texts

Roderic D. M. Page

Opinion piece: Imagining Sisyphus happy: DNA barcoding and the unnamed majority

Mark Blaxter

Review article: Advancing taxonomy and bioinventories with DNA barcodes

Scott E. Miller, Axel Hausmann, Winnie Hallwachs, and Daniel H. Janzen

Opinion piece: Biodiversity analysis in the digital era

John La Salle, Kristen J. Williams, and Craig Moritz

Research article: Counting animal species with DNA barcodes: Canadian insects

Paul D. N. Hebert, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Angela C. Telfer, Valerie Levesque-Beaudin, Megan A. Milton, Stephanie Pedersen, Paul Jannetta, and Jeremy R. deWaard

Opinion piece: Telling plant species apart with DNA: from barcodes to genomes

Peter M. Hollingsworth, De-Zhu Li, Michelle van der Bank, and Alex D. Twyford

Review article: Scaling up discovery of hidden diversity in fungi: impacts of barcoding approaches

Rebecca Yahr, Conrad L. Schoch, and Bryn T. M. Dentinger

Review article: Censusing marine eukaryotic diversity in the twenty-first century

Matthieu Leray and Nancy Knowlton

Review article: Barcoding the largest animals on Earth: ongoing challenges and molecular solutions in the taxonomic identification of ancient cetaceans

Camilla Speller, Youri van den Hurk, Anne Charpentier, Ana Rodrigues, Armelle Gardeisen, Barbara Wilkens, Krista McGrath, Keri Rowsell, Luke Spindler, Matthew Collins, and Michael Hofreiter

Review article: DNA barcoding in diverse educational settings: five case studies

Heather J. Henter, Ralph Imondi, Karen James, Diana Spencer, and Dirk Steinke

Research article: The Trichoptera barcode initiative: a strategy for generating a species-level Tree of Life

Xin Zhou, Paul B. Frandsen, Ralph W. Holzenthal, Clare R. Beet, Kristi R. Bennett, Roger J. Blahnik, Núria Bonada, David Cartwright, Suvdtsetseg Chuluunbat, Graeme V. Cocks, Gemma E. Collins, Jeremy deWaard, John Dean, Oliver S. Flint, Jr, Axel Hausmann, Lars Hendrich, Monika Hess, Ian D. Hogg, Boris C. Kondratieff, Hans Malicky, Megan A. Milton, Jérôme Morinière, John C. Morse, François Ngera Mwangi, Steffen U. Pauls, María Razo Gonzalez, Aki Rinne, Jason L. Robinson, Juha Salokannel, Michael Shackleton, Brian Smith, Alexandros Stamatakis, Ros StClair, Jessica A. Thomas, Carmen Zamora-Muñoz, Tanja Ziesmann, and Karl M. Kjer

Review article: Dissecting host-associated communities with DNA barcodes

Christopher C. M. Baker, Leonora S. Bittleston, Jon G. Sanders, and Naomi E. Pierce

Review article: Insect symbionts in food webs

Ailsa H. C. McLean, Benjamin J. Parker, Jan Hrček, Lee M. Henry, and H. Charles J. Godfray

Opinion piece: A new way to contemplate Darwin's tangled bank: how DNA barcodes are reconnecting biodiversity science and biomonitoring

Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Donald J. Baird, Nicole A. Fahner, Robert Beiko, and G. Brian Golding

Review article: Multilocus inference of species trees and DNA barcoding

Diego Mallo and David Posada