Lichens are symbiotic associations resulting from interactions among fungi (primary and
secondary mycobionts), algae and/or cyanobacteria (primary and secondary photobionts) …

Delimiting and naming biodiversity is a vital step toward wildlife conservation and research.
However, species delimitation must be consistent across biota so that the limited resources …

Vocalizations of anuran amphibians have received much attention in studies of behavioral
ecology and physiology, but also provide informative characters for identifying and …

Colletotrichum is one of the most important plant pathogenic genera that is responsible for
numerous diseases which can have a profound impact on the agricultural sector. Species …

The “multispecies” coalescent (MSC) model that underlies many genomic species-
delimitation approaches is problematic because it does not distinguish between genetic …

The analysis of DNA barcode sequences with varying techniques for cluster recognition
provides an efficient approach for recognizing putative species (operational taxonomic units …

Molecular approaches to species delimitation are increasingly used to ascertain the number
of species in a sample prior to taxonomic, ecological or physiological studies. Although …

Motivation: The multispecies coalescent model provides a formal framework for the
assignment of individual organisms to species, where the species are modeled as the …

While powerful and user-friendly software suites exist for phylogenetics, and an impressive
cybertaxomic infrastructure of online species databases has been set up in the past two …

DNA-based species delimitation may be compromised by limited sampling effort and
species rarity, including “singleton” representatives of species, which hampers estimates of …