Tightening the requirements for species diagnoses would help integrate DNA-based descriptions in taxonomic practice.

Tightening the requirements for species diagnoses would help integrate DNA-based descriptions in taxonomic practice.

Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of bionomenclature contain poorly defined requirements for species and subspecies diagnoses (henceforth, species diagnoses), which...

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Main Authors: Frank E Rheindt, Patrice Bouchard, Richard L Pyle, Francisco Welter-Schultes, Erna Aescht, Shane T Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, Thierry Bourgoin, Luis M P Ceríaco, Dmitry Dmitriev, Neal Evenhuis, Mark J Grygier, Mark S Harvey, Maurice Kottelat, Nikita Kluge, Frank-T Krell, Jun-Ichi Kojima, Sven O Kullander, Paulo Lucinda, Christopher H C Lyal, Cristina Luisa Scioscia, Daniel Whitmore, Douglas Yanega, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, Thomas Pape
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-08-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002251&type=printable

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