Insect diversity in the Saharo-Arabian region: Revealing a little-studied fauna by DNA barcoding

• Muhammad Ashfaq ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mashfaq@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1351-4126

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• Jamal S. M. Sabir,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Hosam O. El-Ansary,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Floriculture, Ornamental Horticulture and Garden Design Department, Faculty of Agriculture (El-Shatby), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, Department of Plant Production, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Kate Perez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Valerie Levesque-Beaudin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Arif M. Khan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

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• Akhtar Rasool,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Centre for Animal Science and Fisheries, University of Swat, Mingora, Pakistan

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• Carlene Gallant,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Joseph Addesi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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• Paul D. N. Hebert

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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