Equally impressed with the approach's potential is Alfried Vogler, a molecular systematist at Imperial College London. (sciencemag.org)
An L. longissimus «of about 10 meters can be held in your hand as a slimy heap,» says study coauthor Malin Strand, a marine biologist and molecular systematist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. (sciencenews.org)
The discovery «highlights that even in groups as well - known as birds we've just scratched the surface of what we really need to know about biodiversity,» says avian systematist Shannon Hackett of Chicago's Field Museum, who calls the research «good detective work.» (sciencemag.org)