We have just published an important methodological resources, describing in detail the comprehensive protocols for insect biodiversity characterization that we have co-implemented as a parent of the Insect Biome Atlas collaboration. Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht has led the preparation of the manuscript now published in PLoS ONE, and an accompanying protocol at protocols.io.

The publication details:

Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht E., Łukasik P., Buczek M., Deng J., Hartop E.A., Havnås H., Prus-Frankowska M., Ugarph C.R., Viteri P., Andersson A.F., Roslin T., Tack A.J.M., Ronquist F., Miraldo A. (2023): FAVIS: Fast And Versatile protocol for non-destructive metabarcoding of bulk Insect Samples. PLoS One 18(7): e0286272
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286272

You can also directly access the protocol: 

https://www.protocols.io/view/favis-fast-and-versatile-protocol-for-metabarcodin-kqdg36261g25/v1

Congratulations, Ela - and thanks, everybody involved!


Added: 25th July 2023