S. N. Kutty

The paper uses metabarcoding of iDNA from dung and carrion flies to detect vertebrate species in a swamp forest, finding that 18 of 20 vertebrate species are detectable within 150m of a road.

The paper analyzes global flying insect diversity using DNA sequencing from Malaise traps, finding 20 families dominate species diversity worldwide despite high species turnover and taxonomic neglect.

The paper optimizes eDNA protocols for small water volumes to assess freshwater reservoirs, finding that 15 mL captures reservoir-specific differences despite technical replicate variance.

This paper introduces a low-cost, accessible workflow and software for DNA barcoding using MinION sequencing, achieving high accuracy comparable to Sanger and Illumina methods.

This paper demonstrates the use of MinION sequencing for rapid, large-scale species discovery in the hyperdiverse Phoridae fly family, identifying over 650 species from a single trap in Uganda.