• DNA barcode library of Portuguese water mites, with the descriptions of two new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia) 

      Pešić, Vladimir; Zawal, Andrzej; Ferreira, Sónia; Benitez-Bosco, Laura; Cruz-Oliveira, Ana; Girão, Dinis; Padilha, Adriana; Turaccio, Paolo; Rossini, Samantha; Ballini, Lorenzo; Staffoni, Giorgia; Fratini, Sara; Ciofi, Claudio; Iannucci, Alessio; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Stur, Elisabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      This study presents the first results from the analysis of water mites collected in Portugal as part of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe project. 307 COI DNA barcodes clustered into 75 BINs are provided, with 38 BINs being ...
    • DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: Gap-analysis and recommendations for future work 

      Weigand, Hannah; Beermann, Arne J.; Čiampor, Fedor; Costa, Filipe O.; Csabai, Zoltán; Duarte, Sofia; Geiger, Matthias F.; Grabowski, Michał; Rimet, Frédéric; Rulik, Björn; Strand, Malin; Szucsich, Nicholaus; Weigand, Alexander M.; Willassen, Endre; Wyler, Sofia A.; Bouchez, Agnès; Borja, Ángel; Čiamporová-Zaťovičová, Zuzana; Ferreira, Sónia; Dijkstra, Klaas-Douwe B.; Eisendle, Ursula; Freyhof, Jörg; Gadawski, Piotr; Graf, Wolfram; Haegerbaeumer, Arne; van der Hoorn, Berry B.; Japoshvili, Bella; Keresztes, Lujza; Keskin, Emre; Leese, Florian; Macher, Jan N.; Mamos, Tomasz; Paz, Guy; Pešić, Vladimir; Pfannkuchen, Daniela Maric; Pfannkuchen, Martin Andreas; Price, Benjamin W.; Rinkevich, Buki; Teixeira, Marcos A.L.; Várbíró, Gábor; Ekrem, Torbjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Effective identification of species using short DNA fragments (DNA barcoding and DNA metabarcoding) requires reliable sequence reference libraries of known taxa. Both taxonomically comprehensive coverage and content quality ...
    • New records of aturid water mites from Portugal, with the integrative description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Aturidae) 

      Pešić, Vladimir; Smit, Harry; Girão, Dinis; Iannucci, Alessio; Stur, Elisabeth; Ferreira, Sónia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      In this paper, three species of the water mite family Aturidae collected in Portugal were identified using an integrative approach that combines morphology and DNA barcodes. Parabrachypoda lusitanica sp. nov. is described ...