The species concept is the cornerstone of biodiversity science, and any paradigm shift in the
delimitation of species affects many research fields. Many biologists now are embracing a …

Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent
years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for …

Abstract Here, we describe Assemble Species by Automatic Partitioning (ASAP), a new
method to build species partitions from single locus sequence alignments (ie, barcode data …

The species problem has triggered the publication of an almost infinite number of theoretical
and practical studies, including quite a number of books. I should, therefore, perhaps briefly …

Understanding patterns and processes in biological diversity is a critical task given current
and rapid environmental change. Such knowledge is even more essential when the taxa …

Describing biological diversity is a challenging endeavour, especially for the small, cryptic
animals that make up the meiofauna. The field of DNA taxonomy, ie, the use of DNA to …

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 …

Molecular studies have been instrumental for refining species boundaries in the coral genus
Pocillopora and revealing hidden species diversity within the extensively studied global …

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 …

Coalescent‐based species delimitation methods combine population genetic and
phylogenetic theory to provide an objective means for delineating evolutionarily significant …