Innovative applications of modern taxonomic methods for the discovery and classification of biological species form the core of a new DFG Priority Program, which will be coordinated by LMU botanist ...

The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be ...

Biodiversity conservation, botanical research, and ecological studies are all underpinned by accurate taxonomic identification. Traditional taxonomy tends to rely on visible traits such as flower ...

The room was filled with nondescript wooden drawers full of rows and rows of preserved insects suspended with pins through their thoraxes. The minute changes of each insect’s evolution can be observed ...

Taxonomic classification of the thousands–millions of 16S rRNA gene sequences generated in microbiome studies is often achieved using a naïve Bayesian classifier (for example, the Ribosomal Database ...