The Passiflora genus, widely known as passionflowers, encompasses an estimated 700–750 species distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Recent advances in taxonomy have ...
Classification within the genus Rosa is problematic due to ± continuous variation of morphological characters. The dogroses, (Rosa, section Caninae) are classified only by their unique meiotic system ...
Fundulotrema porterensis n. sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) is described from the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus (L.; Cyprinodontidae), inhabiting Porters Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada. The new parasite ...
Homonymy and other man-created taxonomic afflictions of Recent Ostracoda / Henry V. Howe -- The history of Bernix tatei Jones 1884 / J.E. Robinson -- Numerical taxonomy of selected Recent British ...
For hundreds of years, plant taxonomists have worked to understand how species are related. Until relatively recently, their only reliable source of information about these relationships was the ...
The European and Mediterranean species of the paper wasp genus Polistes were recently revised. For the first time for this group, scientists applied an integrative taxonomic approach which combines ...
This indicates that the storage root was an already-existing trait that predisposed the plant for cultivation and not solely the result of human domestication, as previously thought. This discovery, ...