We obtained 16S sequences from the Greengenes database, which extracts these sequences from public databases using quality filters as described previously (DeSantis et al., 2006). We only used ...

An International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Working Group on Skeletal Rare Diseases has published a new classification of rare genetic metabolic bone disorders (RGMBDs) according to their metabolic ...

Techniques of numerical taxonomy were used to obtain phenetic classifications based on data from the larvae, pupae and adults of representatives of eight genera in two tribes of Chironomidae.

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...

Abstract Dissatisfaction with the subspecies unit of classification is, in part, a consequence of the failure of many of those who have described subspecies to follow the conceptual definition of the ...