Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent
years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for …

Alternaria alternata is a common species of fungus frequently isolated from plants as both an
endophyte and a pathogen. Although the current definition of A. alternata rests on a …

Delimiting and naming biodiversity is a vital step toward wildlife conservation and research.
However, species delimitation must be consistent across biota so that the limited resources …

Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of
various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

The species problem has triggered the publication of an almost infinite number of theoretical
and practical studies, including quite a number of books. I should, therefore, perhaps briefly …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

The issue of species delimitation has long been confused with that of species
conceptualization, leading to a half century of controversy concerning both the definition of …

The taxonomic challenge posed by cryptic species (two or more distinct species classified as
a single species) has been recognized for nearly 300 years, but the advent of relatively …

Exploration of the relationship between gene trees and their containing species trees leads
to consideration of how to reconstruct species trees from gene trees and of the concept of …