What is Allium achaium Boiss. & Orph.? Disentangling the taxonomy of a Greek mountain species [PDF]
Allium oreohellenicum Tzanoud., Tsakiri & Raus (Amaryllidaceae), endemic of the Greek mountains, is described and illustrated as a species new to science.
Raus, Thomas +2 more
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Why Vouchers Matter in Botanical Research
What is a voucher and why is it important in research? As a preserved specimen of an identified taxon deposited in a permanent and accessible storage facility, the voucher serves as the supporting material for published studies of the taxon and ensures ...
Theresa M. Culley
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Apple is cultivated in most of the temperate regions due to the fruit’s quality, its easiness to propagate, and its natural aptitude to bear. Malus classifications differ primarily in the taxonomic level at which infrageneric groupings of species are ...
Ceyran Najafova +2 more
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A new subspecies of Stellaria alsine (Caryophyllaceae) from Yakushima, Japan [PDF]
An unknown taxon of Stellaria was discovered in Yakushima, a Japanese island known to harbor several endemic species. To determine the identity of this taxon, this study employed MIG-seq for the reconstruction of a finely resolved phylogenetic tree of ...
Tetsukazu Yahara +5 more
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Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) [PDF]
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is charged with the task of developing, refining, and maintaining a universal virus taxonomy.
Dempsey, Donald M. +5 more
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Match Algorithms for Scientific Names in FlorItaly, the Portal to the Flora of Italy
Scientific names are not part of everyday language in any modern country, and their input as strings in a query system can be easily associated with typographical errors.
Matteo Conti +2 more
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Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany:the problem of Cryptic Pterosaur Taxa in early ontogeny [PDF]
The taxonomy of the Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 from the Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Bavaria, Germany is reviewed. Its nomenclatural history is long and complex, having been synonymised with both P.
Martill, David M., Vidovic, Steven U.
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The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R
Taxonomic lists are crucial elements of vegetation-plot databases and provide the links between original entries, reference taxon views and different taxon concepts.
Miguel Alvarez, Federico Luebert
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Neoteny of the European plane tree [PDF]
The neoteny of 64-day-old European plane tree autovegetative progeny is described, starting from the fact that sexual maturity in the juvenile stage of tree development is a rare and significant process by which the period of synthesis of new lower ...
Ocokoljić Mirjana +3 more
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Rates of agonism among female primates: a cross-taxon perspective [PDF]
Agonism is common in group-living animals, shaping dominance relationships and ultimately impacting individual tness. Rates of agonism vary considerably among taxa, however, and explaining this variation has been central in ecological models of female ...
Altmann +131 more
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