Current approaches to biodiversity conservation are largely based on geographic areas,
ecosystems, ecological communities, and species, with less attention on genetic diversity …

Humans have dramatically altered the planet over the course of a century, from the acidity of
our oceans to the fragmentation of our landscapes and the temperature of our climate …

Modern taxonomy has developed towards the establishment of global authoritative lists of
species that assume the standardized principles of species recognition, at least in a given …

How many species are there on Earth and to what groups do these species belong? These
fundamental questions span systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Yet, recent …

Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

In the last two decades, plant taxonomy has bloomed, following the development of a novel
technique, namely, DNA barcoding. DNA barcodes are standardized sequences, ideally …

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

Abstract 'Cryptic'species are an emerging biological problem that is broadly discussed in the
present study. Recently, a cryptic species definition was suggested for those species which …

The taxonomy and systematics of sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) are one
of the pillars of research aimed to identifying vector populations and the agents transmitted …

Aspergillus series Versicolores members occur in a wide range of environments and
substrates such as indoor environments, food, clinical materials, soil, caves, marine or …