«But no other group of scientists can add as much value through their work
as systematists.
Not exact matches
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.»
The molecular biology wars may also be ending in a rapprochement, he says,
as the «test tube jockeys» belatedly recognize that they need the «stamp collector»
systematists after all.
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.