Modern Tendencies in Bird TaxonomyTHE appearance of a fourth edition of the American Check List of Birds in 1931 has suggested to Joseph Crinnell a comparison between its contents and that of previous editions (Auk, Jan. 1932, p.doi:10.1038/130605c0NoneNature
Proposed minimal standards for the use of genome data for the taxonomy of prokaryotes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 68, 461–466 (2018). CAS PubMed Google Scholar Ford Doolittle, W. Population genomics: how bacterial species form and why they don’t exist. Curr. Biol. 22, R451–...
Among those, the Himalayan Griffon (Gyps himalayensis) is the most widely distributed and abundant vulture species concentrated on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, where livestock carcasses (most of them are yaks and Tibetan sheep raised by local herdsmen) are left for Himalayan Griffons for consumption...
Arthropods are found throughout the entire range of habitats in the UAE, including some of the most inhospitable environments such as sabkha (Hogarth et al. 2002). Some species can live in a variety of different habitats that occur across the nation (generalists), whereas other species require...
A comprehensive understanding of the dietary habits of carnivores is essential to get ecological insights into their role in the ecosystem, potential competition with other carnivorous species, and their effect on prey populations. Genetic analysis of no
Few studies on eurypterids have taken into account morphological changes that occur throughout postembryonic development. Here two species of eurypterid are described from the Pragian Beartooth Butte Formation of Cottonwood Canyon in Wyoming and included
The majority of soybean varieties before the 1950s were landraces, and a small number of modern cultivars were released from the 1960s to the 1980s, while most varieties since the 1990s are modern cultivars, with a continuous increase in oil content (Figure S1). To date, many improved ...
In 2009, a proposal was put forward by Kurath to the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) to create the new genus Ferlavirus with Fer-de-Lance paramyxovirus (the same virus as FDLV) as its type species. This proposal has been accepted by the ICTV (2013) and all future...
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are one of the largest biotechnology applications in the world and are of critical importance to modern urban societies. An accurate evaluation of the microbial dark matter (MDM, microorganisms whose genomes remain uncharacterized) proportions in WWTPs is of great va...
are small and uniform in shape1. Most recent phylogenetic analyses imply that the macromeric dermal skeleton is primitive for gnathostomes, given it occurs in jawed stem gnathostomes known as placoderms2,3,4,5,6,7,8. The transition between the patterns of the macromeric dermal plates of...