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$1 DNA barcodes for reconstructing complex phenomes and finding rare species in specimen-rich samples

article published in 2015

'Direct PCR' optimization yields a rapid, cost-effective, nondestructive and efficient method for obtaining DNA barcodes without DNA extraction

scientific article

A MinION-based pipeline for fast and cost-effective DNA barcoding

A MinION™-based pipeline for fast and cost-effective DNA barcoding

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

A cladistic analysis of Diopsidae (Diptera) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

article published in 2002

A comparative SEM study of the eggs of the Sepsidae (Diptera) with a cladistic analysis based on egg, larval and adult characters

article by Rudolf Meier published 1995 in Insect Systematics and Evolution

A phylogenetic analysis of Coelopidae (Diptera) based on morphological and DNA sequence data

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A phylogenetic analysis of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) and some related genera

scholarly article by Andrea Tóthová et al published 2 November 2012 in Cladistics

A phylogenetic analysis of the fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) based on morphological characters of the larvae

scholarly article by TED R. SCHULTZ & Rudolf Meier published October 1995 in Systematic Entomology

A phylogenomic analysis of Culicomorpha (Diptera) resolves the relationships among the eight constituent families

A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar

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A re-analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.’s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science

A re‐analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.’s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that BINs do not deserve names, but BOLD Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science

scientific article published in 2021

Across the Baltic: a new record for an enigmatic black scavenger fly, Zuskamira inexpectata (Pont, 1987) (Sepsidae) in Finland.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

An update on DNA barcoding: low species coverage and numerous unidentified sequences

scientific article published in 2012

Analysing small insect glands with UV-LDI MS: high-resolution spatial analysis reveals the chemical composition and use of the osmeterium secretion in Themira superba (Sepsidae: Diptera).

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Barcoding and border biosecurity: identifying cyprinid fishes in the aquarium trade ⬇️

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Bending for love: losses and gains of sexual dimorphisms are strictly correlated with changes in the mounting position of sepsid flies (Sepsidae: Diptera)

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Beyond the Coral Triangle: high genetic diversity and near panmixia in Singapore's populations of the broadcast spawning sea star Protoreaster nodosus

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Biodiversity Research Based On Taxonomic Revisions — A Tale Of Unrealized Opportunities

Boosting natural history research via metagenomic clean-up of crowdsourced feces

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Citation of taxonomic publications: the why, when, what and what not

Cladistic analysis of the Sepsidae (Cyclorrhapha: Diptera) based on a comparative scanning electron microscopic study of larvae

Combining molecular and morphological analyses of water strider phylogeny (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha): effects of alignment and taxon sampling

scholarly article by Jakob Damgaard et al published 9 December 2004 in Systematic Entomology

Comparing the effectiveness of metagenomics and metabarcoding for diet analysis of a leaf-feeding monkey (Pygathrix nemaeus).

scientific article published in August 2014

Complete tribal sampling reveals basal split in Muscidae (Diptera), confirms saprophagy as ancestral feeding mode, and reveals an evolutionary correlation between instar numbers and carnivory

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Conflict, convergent evolution, and the relative importance of immature and adult characters in endopterygote phylogenetics

scientific article published on January 2009

Conservation status of the only Lungless Frog Barbourula kalimantanensis Iskandar, 1978 (Amphibia: Anura: Bombinatoridae)

scientific article published in 2011

Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Cryptic genetic diversity in “widespread” Southeast Asian bird species suggests that Philippine avian endemism is gravely underestimated

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Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation

scientific article (publication date: March 2007)

Deciphering the evolutionary history and developmental mechanisms of a complex sexual ornament: the abdominal appendages of Sepsidae (Diptera).

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Determining species boundaries in a world full of rarity: singletons, species delimitation methods

scientific article

DiversityScanner: Robotic discovery of small invertebrates with machine learning methods

DiversityScanner: Robotic handling of small invertebrates with machine learning methods

scientific article published in 2021

Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

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Evolution of life history traits in Asian freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) based on multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis

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Evolution of male costs of copulation in sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae)

Evolution of the assassin's arms: insights from a phylogeny of combined transcriptomic and ribosomal DNA data (Heteroptera: Reduvioidea)

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Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera

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Evolutionary analysis identifies multiple genome expansions and contractions in Sepsidae (Diptera) and suggests targets for future genomic research

scientific article published in 2015

Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples

scientific article published on 19 January 2024

Fauna europaea: Diptera - brachycera

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Fecal metagenomics for the simultaneous assessment of diet, parasites, and population genetics of an understudied primate

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Five additions to the list of Sepsidae (Diptera) for Vietnam: Perochaeta cuirassa sp. n., Perochaeta lobo sp. n., Sepsis spura sp. n., Sepsis sepsi Ozerov, 2003 and Sepsis monostigma Thompson, 1869 ⬇️

scientific article published on November 29, 2010

From kissing to belly stridulation: comparative analysis reveals surprising diversity, rapid evolution, and much homoplasy in the mating behaviour of 27 species of sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae).

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

From ‘cryptic species’ to integrative taxonomy: an iterative process involving DNA sequences, morphology, and behaviour leads to the resurrection of Sepsis pyrrhosoma (Sepsidae: Diptera)

scientific article published in 2010

Genetic data confirm the species status of Sepsis nigripes Meigen (Diptera : Sepsidae) and adds one species to the Alpine fauna while questioning the synonymy of Sepsis helvetica Munari

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Global convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity

Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity

scientific article published on 29 August 2023

HENNIG86 and PAUP are reliable

scientific article published in 1992

Hidden in the urban parks of New York City: Themira lohmanus, a new species of Sepsidae described based on morphology, DNA sequences, mating behavior, and reproductive isolation (Sepsidae, Diptera).

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High haplotype variability in established Asian populations of the invasive Caribbean bivalve Mytilopsis sallei (Dreissenidae)

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Homoplasy Slope Ratio: A Better Measurement of Observed Homoplasy in Cladistic Analyses

scientific article published in 1991

Importance of reservoirs for the conservation of freshwater molluscs in a tropical urban landscape

Improved COI barcoding primers for Southeast Asian perching birds (Aves: Passeriformes).

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Integrative taxonomy reveals two sympatric species of the genus Eucriotettix Hebard, 1930 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae).

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Is the COI barcoding gene involved in speciation through intergenomic conflict?

scientific article published on 11 December 2011

Ivermectin sensitivity is an ancient trait affecting all ecdysozoa but shows phylogenetic clustering among sepsid flies

scientific article

Kelp flies and species concepts - the case of Coelopa frigida (Fabricius, 1805) and C. nebularum Aldrich, 1929 (Diptera: Coelopidae)

scientific article published in 2003

Lack of morphological coevolution between male forelegs and female wings in Themira (Sepsidae: Diptera: Insecta)

Mangroves are an overlooked hotspot of insect diversity despite low plant diversity

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

Mimicry diversification in Papilio dardanus via a genomic inversion in the regulatory region of engrailed-invected

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

MinION sequencing of seafood in Singapore reveals creatively labelled flatfishes, confused roe, pig DNA in squid balls, and phantom crustaceans

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

Mitochondrial and nuclear markers support the monophyly of Dolichopodidae and suggest a rapid origin of the subfamilies (Diptera: Empidoidea)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Chronometrics of Tarsiidae Based on 12S mtDNA Haplotypes: Evidence for Miocene Origins of Crown Tarsiers and Numerous Species within the Sulawesian Clade

scholarly article by Myron Shekelle et al published 20 November 2010 in International Journal of Primatology

Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) with an emphasis on the superfamily Oestroidea and the position of Mystacinobiidae and McAlpine's fly

scientific article published on 4 August 2010

Molluscs for Sale: Assessment of Freshwater Gastropods and Bivalves in the Ornamental Pet Trade ⬇️

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More evidence for pervasive paraphyly in scleractinian corals: systematic study of Southeast Asian Faviidae (Cnidaria; Scleractinia) based on molecular and morphological data

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Morphological and molecular evidence converge upon a robust phylogeny of the megadiverse Holometabola

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Morphology versus molecules: the phylogenetic relationships of Sepsidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) based on morphology and DNA sequence data from ten genes

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Multispecies environmental DNA metabarcoding sheds light on annual coral spawning events

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

NGS barcoding reveals high resistance of a hyperdiverse chironomid (Diptera) swamp fauna against invasion from adjacent freshwater reservoirs ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

New Guinea highland origin of a widespread arthropod supertramp

scientific article published in April 2009

New information on the evolution of mating behaviour in Sepsidae (Diptera) and the cost of male copulations in Saltella sphondylii

Next-Generation identification tools for Nee Soon freshwater swamp forest, Singapore ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

Next-generation freshwater bioassessment: eDNA metabarcoding with a conserved metazoan primer reveals species-rich and reservoir-specific communities

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No evidence for mitochondrial genetic variability in the largest population of critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys in Vietnam.

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

ONTbarcoder and MinION barcodes aid biodiversity discovery and identification by everyone, for everyone

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

On the egg morphology and phylogenetic relationships of Diopsidae (Diptera: Schizophora)

scientific article (publication date: March 2000)

On the inappropriate use of Kimura-2-parameter (K2P) divergences in the DNA-barcoding literature

scientific article published in 2011

On the use of DNA sequences for determining the species limits of a polymorphic new species in the stink bug genusHalys(Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from Pakistan

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Out of Borneo: Neogene diversification of Sundaic freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae:Parathelphusa)

Ovoviviparity and viviparity in the Diptera

Phylogenetic analysis of Themira (Sepsidae: Diptera): sensitivity analysis, alignment, and indel treatment in a multigene study

scholarly article by Torsten R. Laamanen et al published June 2005 in Cladistics

Phylogenomic analysis of Calyptratae: resolving the phylogenetic relationships within a major radiation of Diptera

scientific article published in 2019

Phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater crab genus Johora (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the Malay Peninsula, and the origins of its insular fauna

scholarly article by Darren C. J. Yeo et al published May 2007 in Zoologica Scripta

Phylogeny of fungus-growing ants (Tribe Attini) based on mtDNA sequence and morphology.

scientific article

Phylogeography and genetic diversity of a widespread Old World butterfly, Lampides boeticus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

scientific article (publication date: 30 October 2008)

Population density, spatiotemporal use and diet of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in a human-modified succession forest landscape of Singapore

Positive selection in ASPM is correlated with cerebral cortex evolution across primates but not with whole-brain size

scientific article published on 21 August 2008

Primate home range and GRIN2A, a receptor gene involved in neuronal plasticity: implications for the evolution of spatial memory

scientific article published on 11 February 2009

Proximate causes of Rensch's rule: does sexual size dimorphism in arthropods result from sex differences in development time?

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Rapid evolution of troglomorphic characters suggests selection rather than neutral mutation as a driver of eye reduction in cave crabs

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Rapid, large-scale species discovery in hyperdiverse taxa using 1D MinION sequencing

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Roads to isolation: Similar genomic history patterns in two species of freshwater crabs with contrasting environmental tolerances and range sizes.

scientific article published on 15 April 2018

Secondarily reduced foreleg armature in Perochaeta dikowi sp.n. (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: Sepsidae) due to a novel mounting technique

Sensitivity analysis, molecular systematics and natural history evolution of Scathophagidae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: Calyptratae)

scholarly article by Sujatha Narayanan Kutty et al published February 2007 in Cladistics

Sepsid even-skipped enhancers are functionally conserved in Drosophila despite lack of sequence conservation

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SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multi-gene datasets with character set and codon information

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Sex ticklers and dirty flies: The development and evolution of a novel abdominal appendage in male sepsid flies

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Significance of Specimen Databases from Taxonomic Revisions for Estimating and Mapping the Global Species Diversity of Invertebrates and Repatriating Reliable Specimen Data

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Slow mitochondrial COI sequence evolution at the base of the metazoan tree and its implications for DNA barcoding

scientific article published on 8 February 2008

Sorting specimen-rich invertebrate samples with cost-effective NGS barcodes: Validating a reverse workflow for specimen processing

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Suggestions for a more precise usage of proper names of taxa Ambiguities related to the stem lineage concept

scientific article published in 1992

THEMIRA BILOBA ANDERSSON 1975 (DIPTERA: SEPSIDAE), A SPECIES FROM MANHATTAN'S CENTRAL PARK THAT IS NEW TO THE NEARCTIC REGION

The Development of Phylogenetic Concepts in Hennig's Early Theoretical Publications (1947-1966)

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The Muscoidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) are paraphyletic: Evidence from four mitochondrial and four nuclear genes

scientific article published on 29 August 2008

The immature stages of Katacamilla cavernicola Papp, the first described for the Camillidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with comparison to other known Ephydroidea larvae, and notes on biology

article by A. H. Kirk-Spriggs et al published June 2002 in Journal of Natural History

The molecular clockwork of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

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The need for specifying species concepts: How many species of silvered langurs (Trachypithecus cristatus group) should be recognized?

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The phylogenetic relationships among infraorders and superfamilies of Diptera based on morphological evidence

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The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers

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The puzzling mitochondrial phylogeography of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens), the commercially most important insect protein species

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

The skeletomuscular system of the larva of Drosophila melanogaster (Drosophilidae, Diptera): a contribution to the morphology of a model organism

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The use of mean instead of smallest interspecific distances exaggerates the size of the "barcoding gap" and leads to misidentification

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Towards a phylogenetic classification of reef corals: the Indo-Pacific generaMerulina,GoniastreaandScapophyllia(Scleractinia, Merulinidae)

scholarly article by Danwei Huang et al published 3 June 2014 in Zoologica Scripta

Towards holomorphology in entomology: rapid and cost-effective adult-larva matching using NGS barcodes

Transcriptome and target DNA enrichment sequence data provide new insights into the phylogeny of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata: Vespidae).

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Unlocking the "Black box": internal female genitalia in Sepsidae (Diptera) evolve fast and are species-specific

scientific article (publication date: 10 September 2010)

Using seemingly unnecessary illustrations to improve the diagnostic usefulness of descriptions in taxonomy-a case study on Perochaeta orientalis (Diptera, Sepsidae)

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What cell lineages tell us about the evolution of spiralia remains to be seen

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When "not extinct" is not good news: conservation in the Sangihe Islands.

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Whitefly predation and extensive mesonotum color polymorphism in an Acletoxenus population from Singapore (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

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