Marko Prous

The paper identifies a divergent NUMT in a sawfly species that mimics mitochondrial coding regions and suggests it may result from recent mitochondrial introgression.

The paper benchmarks full-length ITS metabarcoding across Illumina, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore platforms using mock and soil communities, finding PacBio has the lowest error rate and recommends standard pipelines for biodiversity assessments.

The paper identifies multiple functional COI barcode variants in North European sawflies using high-throughput sequencing, challenging the one-barcode-per-specimen assumption in DNA barcoding.