DNA barcoding Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

Do shrub-steppe passerines share food?

By Julia Zurdo|2023-03-10T18:26:50+00:0013 Mar 2023|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, Genetics, IBIS, invertebrates, passerines|

Using DNA metabarcoding to describe diet and niche overlap in a steppe passerine assemblage

Robins on East Asian islands

By Shin-Ichi Seki|2023-03-01T10:38:05+00:002 Mar 2023|alpine birds, distribution, diversity, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, evolution, fieldwork, forest birds, Genetics, IBIS, island birds, migrant, passerines, population structure, populations|

Genetic differentiation in volcanic islands branching off from the mainland

Revealing the Redleg’s Secrets

By Giovanni Forcina|2022-12-12T14:26:00+00:0022 Dec 2022|avian biology, climate change, disease, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Farmland birds, Galliformes, game bird, Genetics, genomics, grassland birds, Science|

The whole genome marks a new era for the Red-legged Partridge

An inordinate fondness for moths

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-14T11:04:38+00:0015 Dec 2022|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, fecal DNA, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling|

Genetic analyses provide insights into the diet of Eurasian Nightjars.

The mixed-up world of swifts

By Alice Cibois|2022-07-13T11:39:17+00:0018 Jul 2022|avian biology, cryptic, diversity, DNA barcoding, flight, gene flow, genetic diversity, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, population dynamics, population structure, populations|

Two species of swifts hybridize with each other in an unsuspected way

All in the genes

By Begona Martinez Cruz|2022-05-09T10:23:41+00:0012 May 2022|BOU-funded, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Genetics|

Disentangling the demographic history and adaptation of the imperial eagles

Disjunct populations: connecting the dots

By Ashish Jha|2022-03-04T11:33:34+00:007 Mar 2022|birds of conservation concern, Conservation, distribution, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, genetic diversity, Genetics, habitat degradation, passerines, population dynamics, population structure, range expansion|

Discontinuous populations of Yellow-throated Bulbul are genetically connected

Chicks as potential biodiversity monitors

By Stephen Willis|2021-09-30T13:01:44+00:006 Sep 2021|biodiversity, BOU-funded, Breeding, diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, eDNA, fecal DNA, fledglings, forest birds, woodland birds|

Discovering nestling diet using DNA barcoding

DNA-barcoding against poaching: the Cyprus paradigm

By Andreas Dimitriou|2021-08-20T07:53:03+00:0013 Mar 2017|bird trapping, Conservation, DNA barcoding|

How could DNA barcoding be an ace up the sleeve against poaching?