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Diversity in 2025

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 353

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Prof. Dr. Michael Wink

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Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 329, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: phytochemistry; molecular pharmacology of medicinal and toxic plants; alkaloids; evolution; chemical ecology; ornithology; phylogeny and evolution
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful 2024 and wish you a prosperous 2025.

Last year, we launched the Special Issue “Diversity in 2024”, available via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diversity/special_issues/8Q850W0LPL. That Special Issue received great support from our readers, authors, anonymous peer reviewers, and editors. That Special Issue included 24 papers, receiving more than 50000 views.

Now, we are launching the Special Issue “Diversity in 2025” to celebrate the new year. This Special Issue is dedicated to high-quality review papers and research papers on all aspects of biodiversity and its applications, including biodiversity assessment and biodiversity preservation. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Organismic diversity and diversity preservation;
  • Evolution and ecology;
  • Environmental DNA;
  • Invasive organisms;
  • Marine species;
  • General aspects of diversity assessment.

We welcome contributions from researchers who can offer insights on the latest developments in this field. We also encourage authors to invite relevant experts and colleagues to contribute to this Special Issue.

We look forward to receiving your contributions, which will make this Special Issue a unique resource for future researchers in the field of diversity.

Prof. Dr. Michael Wink
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • biodiversity
  • animal conservation
  • evolution and ecology
  • marine species
  • plant invasive species

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Exploring the Diversity of Micropterigidae and Eriocraniidae (Lepidoptera) in South Italian Forests by DNA Barcoding
by Sara La Cava and Stefano Scalercio
Diversity 2025, 17(3), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/d17030169 (registering DOI) - 26 Feb 2025
Abstract
Micropterigidae and Eriocraniidae are poorly investigated in Southern Europe. Despite the richness of the Italian territory, studies devoted to investigating their molecular diversity are lacking. Furthermore, knowledge concerning the diversity and species distribution of these families in southern Italian regions is very poor. [...] Read more.
Micropterigidae and Eriocraniidae are poorly investigated in Southern Europe. Despite the richness of the Italian territory, studies devoted to investigating their molecular diversity are lacking. Furthermore, knowledge concerning the diversity and species distribution of these families in southern Italian regions is very poor. The aim of this paper is to contribute to filling the gaps in knowledge on the diversity of Micropterigidae and Eriocraniidae in southern Italian regions by analysing, through DNA barcoding, the samples collected in this geographic area by the authors in recent years. In total, 37 specimens were submitted to DNA barcoding analysis. The sequences were subsequently identified by comparing them with those available in the Barcoding of Life Data Systems. The results provided the first record and the first sequences of the Eriocraniidae family for southern Italy, the first record in continental Italy of a formerly Sicilian endemic species, the first sequences of an endemic species, and the first sequence belonging either to a previously described but unsequenced species or to an undescribed species. In conclusion, DNA barcoding of these families in southern Italy provided very interesting insights, improving their molecular libraries and the knowledge on the fauna of this territory. Daytime studies can further improve these results, but addressing the gaps concerning immature stages should be the major goal of future research. Full article
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