Background Taxonomy is the biological discipline that identifies, describes, classifies and names extant and extinct species and other taxa. Nowadays, species taxonomy is …
True fungi (Fungi) and fungus-like organisms (eg Mycetozoa, Oomycota) constitute the second largest group of organisms based on global richness estimates, with around 3 …
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …
Motivation In recent years, molecular species delimitation has become a routine approach for quantifying and classifying biodiversity. Barcoding methods are of particular importance …
Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) constitute one of the most diverse and ecologically important groups of phytoplankton. They are considered to be particularly important in nutrient-rich …
A Luo, C Ling, SYW Ho, CD Zhu - Systematic Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …
Virtually all empirical ecological studies require species identification during data collection. DNA metabarcoding refers to the automated identification of multiple species from a single …
N Puillandre, A Lambert, S Brouillet… - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Within uncharacterized groups, DNA barcodes, short DNA sequences that are present in a wide range of species, can be used to assign organisms into species. We propose an …
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …