Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction,
identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of …

Abstract UNITE (https://unite. ut. ee) is a web-based database and sequence management
environment for molecular identification of eukaryotes. It targets the nuclear ribosomal …

Tautz et al.[1] propose to 'solve'the lack of adequate classifications and effective
identification tools (the socalled 'taxonomic impediment') by replacing existing classifications …

Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the original bioinformatics
and a fundamental basis for all biology. Yet over the past few decades, teaching and funding …

Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological
nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types …

Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new
organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of …

Reconstructing the complete evolutionary history of extant life on our planet will be one of
the most fundamental accomplishments of scientific endeavor, akin to the completion of the …

With the astonishing rate that genomic and metagenomic sequence data sets are
accumulating, there are many reasons to constrain the data analyses. One approach to such …

ABSTRACT DNA sequence information has increasingly been used in ecological research
on microbial eukaryotes. Sequence-based approaches have included studies of the total …

There is urgent need for a formal nomenclature of sequence-based, voucherless Fungi,
given that environmental sequencing has accumulated more than one billion fungal ITS …