This is the opening paper in the special issue of Fungal Diversity, which collates the data on
defining species. Defining and recognizing species has long been a controversial issue …

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE) are severe helminthic
zoonoses. Echinococcus multilocularis (causative agent of AE) is widely distributed in the …

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POPART: full-feature software for haplotype network construction Jessica W. Leigh* and David …

Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Most plants do poorly when flooded. Certain rice varieties, known as deepwater rice, survive
periodic flooding and consequent oxygen deficiency by activating internode growth of stems …

Increases in the yield of rice, a staple crop for more than half of the global population, are
imperative to support rapid population growth. Grain weight is a major determining factor of …

Echinococcus granulosus, formerly regarded as a single species with a high genotypic and
phenotypic diversity, is now recognised as an assemblage of cryptic species, which differ …

Motivation: TCS is a widely used haplotype network reconstruction software, but lacks the
capability of overlap** genetic with geographic structure, which is often a first step in …

Cataloging the very large number of undescribed species of insects could be greatly
accelerated by automated DNA based approaches, but procedures for large-scale species …

Traditionally, one giraffe species and up to eleven subspecies have been recognized [1];
however, nine subspecies are commonly accepted [2]. Even after a century of research, the …