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Today’s Taxonomy: A Way to a New Synthesis or an Endless Deadlock?
AbstractThe term modern (or new) synthesis has long been rooted in the lexicon of researchers writing about the history of evolutionary biology in...
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Evolutionary History and Relationships of Shrimps
The evolutionary history of shrimps can be determined or inferred by various techniques. This history is best expressed by their classification and...
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Plant Evolution and Systematics 1982–2022: Changing Questions and Methods as Seen by a Participant
This review describes, in chronological order, the research topics in which I have been involved over the past 40 years, a time during which the...
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Ichthyology and Collection Building in Japan
Histories of ichthyology and fish collection building in Japan were reviewed in this chapter. Our historical research revealed that systematic...
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Why Owl Monkeys Are Pitheciids: Morphology, Adaptations, and the Evolutionary History of the Aotus Lineage
Phylogeny reconstruction is an estimation of genealogical history, not an exact rendering of it, and no method of phylogeny reconstruction is...
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Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
AbstractCognition is not a process of mastering truths, i.e., grains of ultimate knowledge. Even in the details, cognition only allows us to get...
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Shed teeth from Portezuelo formation at Sierra del Portezuelo reveal a higher diversity of predator theropods during Turonian-Coniacian times in northern Patagonia
The study of thirty-two shed crowns from the Portezuelo Formation (middle Turonian-late Coniacian) at the Sierra del Portezuelo locality, reveals six...
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Plant Taxonomy: A Historical Perspective, Current Challenges, and Perspectives
Taxonomy is the science that explores, describes, names, and classifies all organisms. In this introductory chapter, we highlight the major...
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Minimal Taxonomic Standards for Declaration of New Microbial Species
Modern-day microbial taxonomists are embracing the inclusion of microbial genomic taxonomy in the declaration of new microbial species. With the...
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Pseudobombax MALVACEAE
A diagnostic description of the genus is given with special emphasis on the occurrence of succulence amongst its species. The geographical...
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Importance of mobile genetic element immunity in numerically abundant Trichodesmium clades
The colony-forming cyanobacteria Trichodesmium spp. are considered one of the most important nitrogen-fixing genera in the warm, low nutrient ocean....
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From the Machete to the Microscope: Dennis Stevenson, Plant Morphologist
To mark the commencement of Dennis Stevenson’s status as Senior Curator Emeritus at New York Botanical Garden, we present a brief and subjective...
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Genomics
Genomics is the study of the structure, function, and evolution of genomes, the ensemble of genes in an organism. It involves the sequencing and...
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The criterion of conjunction in plant systematics and evolution
I review the theory and practice behind as reported by Patterson (in: Joysey, Friday (eds) Problems of phylogenetic reconstruction, Academic Press,...
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Application of genomic markers generated for ray-finned fishes in chondrichthyan Phylogenomics
Reconstructing a well-supported phylogenetic relationship among species is a prerequisite for biological and evolutionary researches. Chondrichthyes...
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A new blue Astrangia coral (Scleractinia) from the Southwestern Atlantic
Astrangia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 is a small, poorly known genus of Scleractinia, composed of 15 extant species with circumtropical to temperate...
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Pseudobombax MALVACEAE
A diagnostic description of the genus is given with special emphasis on the occurrence of succulence amongst its species. The geographical...
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New data on Propyrotherium (Mammalia, Pyrotheria) from the middle Eocene age (Chubut, Argentina): anatomy, age constraints, and phylogeny
Pyrotheria is one of the most peculiar orders of South American native ungulates, whose members evolved from the early? Eocene to the late Oligocene...
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Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology
Following the triumph of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis in the 1940s and 1950s, natural selection became viewed by most anglophone evolutionary...
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The Systematic History of the Tribe Laurencieae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) and the Problems in Studying Representatives of This Taxon in the Far Eastern Seas of Russia
AbstractA history of the taxonomy of the tribe Laurencieae is given in this brief review. The taxonomic revisions that have occurred over the past...
