Another conference volume: Barcodes to Biomes

Not too long ago, I posted about a special barcoding conference issue the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The issue comprised of contributions derived from presentations at the 6th International Barcode of Life conference. As always there were so many good contributions that a single species issue doesn't do justice to the breadth and quality of talks and posters.

Well, I have good news - there is more. The Canadian journal Genome had agreed to publish a two-volume special issue as well. It was assembled by my colleague Sarah Adamowicz. I was one of the guest associate editors. The first volume was published today. And once more, all articles are Open Access. Enjoy reading:

From Barcodes to Biomes: Special Issues from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference

Sarah J. Adamowicz, Frédéric J.J. Chain, Elizabeth L. Clare, Kristy Deiner, Vlad Dincă, Manuel Elías-Gutiérrez, Axel Hausmann, Ian D. Hogg, Mari Kekkonen, Darío A. Lijtmaer, Amanda Naaum, Dirk Steinke, Martha Valdez-Moreno, Michelle Van der Bank, John-James Wilson, Jianping Xu

The use of DNA barcodes in food web construction—terrestrial and aquatic ecologists unite!

Tomas Roslin, Sanna Majaneva

Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects

Karen L. Bell, Natasha de Vere, Alexander Keller, Rodney T. Richardson, Annemarie Gous, Kevin S. Burgess, Berry J. Brosi

DNA barcoding the Lepidoptera inventory of a large complex tropical conserved wildland, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica

Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs

How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation—lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012–2015)

M.F. Geiger, J.J. Astrin, T. Borsch, U. Burkhardt, P. Grobe, R. Hand, A. Hausmann, K. Hohberg, L. Krogmann, M. Lutz, C. Monje, B. Misof, J. Morinière, K. Müller, S. Pietsch, D. Quandt, B. Rulik, M. Scholler, W. Traunspurger, G. Haszprunar, W. Wägele

Calibrating the taxonomy of a megadiverse insect family: 3000 DNA barcodes from geometrid type specimens (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)

Axel Hausmann, Scott E. Miller, Jeremy D. Holloway, Jeremy R. deWaard, David Pollock, Sean W.J. Prosser, Paul D.N. Hebert

Barcoding lichen-forming fungi using 454 pyrosequencing is challenged by artifactual and biological sequence variation

Kristiina Mark, Carolina Cornejo, Christine Keller, Daniela Flück, Christoph Scheidegger

A quantitative protocol for DNA metabarcoding of springtails (Collembola)

Seikoh Saitoh, Hiroaki Aoyama, Saori Fujii, Haruki Sunagawa, Hideki Nagahama, Masako Akutsu, Naoya Shinzato, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Taizo Nakamori

Deep COI sequencing of standardized benthic samples unveils overlooked diversity of Jordanian coral reefs in the northern Red Sea

Mamoon M.D. Al-Rshaidat, Allison Snider, Sydney Rosebraugh, Amanda M. Devine, Thomas D. Devine, Laetitia Plaisance, Nancy Knowlton, Matthieu Leray

DNA barcoding in the media: does coverage of cool science reflect its social context?

Janis Geary, Emma Camicioli, Tania Bubela

Can butterflies cope with city life? Butterfly diversity in a young megacity in southern China

Kong-Wah Sing, Hui Dong, Wen-Zhi Wang, John-James Wilson

Genetic diversity among populations of Antarctic springtails (Collembola) within the Mackay Glacier ecotone

Clare R. Beet, Ian D. Hogg, Gemma E. Collins, Don A. Cowan, Diana H. Wall, Byron J. Adams

Exposing the illegal trade in cycad species (Cycadophyta: Encephalartos) at two traditional medicine markets in South Africa using DNA barcoding

J. Williamson, O. Maurin, S.N.S. Shiba, H. van der Bank, M. Pfab, M. Pilusa, R.M. Kabongo, M. van der Bank