Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research

R Cheng, A Luo, M Orr, D Ge, Z Hou, Y Qu… - Integrative …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but
cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 …

Species diagnosis and DNA taxonomy

D Ahrens - DNA Barcoding: Methods and Protocols, 2024‏ - Springer
The use of DNA has helped to improve and speed up species identification and delimitation.
However, it also provides new challenges to taxonomists. Incongruence of outcome from …

Environmental niche models improve species identification in DNA barcoding

C Yang, Y Wang, X Li, J Li, B Yang… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in DNA barcoding have immeasurably advanced global biodiversity
research in the last two decades. However, inherent limitations in barcode sequences, such …

Parafrigoribacterium soli sp. nov. and Parafrigoribacterium humi sp. nov., two novel siderophore-synthesizing species isolated from black soil

YT OuYang, LB Chen, JY Jiao, ZX Hu, JS Wang… - Systematic and Applied …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Two siderophore-synthesizing species SYSU BS000078 T and SYSU BS000231 T were
isolated from the black soil collected from fields located in Heilongjiang province, China. The …

New taxa of extant Hymenoptera in 2022

H Cao, W Jiang, B Ganbaatar, D Zhang… - Biodiversity …, 2023‏ - biodiversity-science.net
Aim: The order Hymenoptera has rich biodiversity and provides essential ecosystem
services. This study aims to catalogue and summarize new taxa of extant Hymenoptera …

Taxonomic species recognition should be consistent

SJ O'Brien, SJ Luo - National Science Review, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Criteria for species naming have been contentious since the time of Carl Linnaeus. With no
clear 'right or wrong'convention for species naming, biologists strive to simply convince their …

Beyond dichotomies in species and speciation

JL Feder, P Nosil - National science review, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Speciation is not as mysterious as Darwin once described it [1]. Nevertheless, important
questions remain. As discussed by Wu [2] and highlighted in a series of papers in National …

[genus] _ [species]; Presenting phylogenies to facilitate synthesis

D Chesters, S Bossert, MC Orr - Cladistics‏ - Wiley Online Library
Each published phylogeny is a potential contribution to the synthesis of the Tree of Life and
countless downstream projects. Steps are needed for fully synthesizable science, but only a …

Dark data limit the biological sciences

MC Orr, G Albert, AC Hughes, I Koludarov… - Science …, 2024‏ - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dark data limit the biological sciences Dark data limit the biological sciences Sci Bull (Bei**g).
2024 Oct 20:S2095-9273(24)00761-8. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.10.021. Online ahead of print …

[PDF][PDF] Cryptic diversity begets challenges and opportunities in biodiversity research

B GUO, F ZHANG, Z SHA, Z ZHAO, M WANG, X SHI… - 2024‏ - researchgate.net
How many species of life are there on Earth? This is a question that we want to know but
cannot yet answer. Some scholars speculate that the number of species may reach 2.2 …