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

Alternaria alternata is a common species of fungus frequently isolated from plants as both an
endophyte and a pathogen. Although the current definition of A. alternata rests on a …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

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 …

Microbial food cultures have directly or indirectly come under various regulatory frameworks
in the course of the last decades. Several of those regulatory frameworks put emphasis on …

Babesia are tick-transmitted hemoprotozooans that infect mammals and birds, and which
are acknowledged for their major impact on farm and pet animal health and associated …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

Estimates of global species diversity have varied widely, primarily based on variation in the
numbers derived from different inventory methods of arthropods and other small …

The issue of species delimitation has long been confused with that of species
conceptualization, leading to a half century of controversy concerning both the definition of …

Craig Moritz is at the Dept of Zoology and Centre for Conservation Biology, The University of
Queensland, Qld 4072, Australia. w riting in the first issue of TREE, Ryder'brought the term …