Sentences with phrase «for taxonomists»

With so many curious characteristics, sponges have always been hard for taxonomists to place.

Not exact matches

Taxonomists are famous for the backhanded compliment when they name stuff.

For years taxonomists tended to follow the «biological species» concept.

Taxonomists need to stop holding out pigheadedly for «the big one,» the ultimate concept that covers all species, he says.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) last week unveiled an online cornucopia for plant taxonomists: 2500 crisp digital photos of specimens from four vascular plant families.

Standardizing species concepts across broad groups, mammals and reptiles, for instance, would reduce the chaos, says coauthor Leslie Christidis, a taxonomist at Southern Cross University in Coffs Harbour.

In 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for «wise man.»

For tarantula taxonomists of the past, this posed a frustrating challenge, resulting in classifications that divided tarantulas into many more species than the group required, Hamilton found.

«Taxonomists would shoot me if I said, «Genes could replace taxonomy,» but for a lot of species, genes are the only data we're going to have.

is the 292nd anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world's plants and animals.

A new study of sea cowries --- marine gastropods famed for their exquisite shells --- indicates that DNA barcoding does not always allow taxonomists to tell the difference between closely related species.

More than 200 taxonomists from 46 countries convened at London's Natural History Museum to hammer out protocols for a massive DNA «barcoding» effort — a move to collect specific gene tags from every organism on Earth.

In an attempt to settle the debate, an international team led by Vincent Smith, a taxonomist and expert on lice evolution at the Natural History Museum in London, turned to the tiny louse — a parasitic insect that infests birds and mammals and is thought to have evolved alongside them — for new insights.

«I apologize for the questions, I'm somewhat of a taxonomist.»

Sometimes taxonomists create new names for groups that already have a name.

The list is put together by an international committee of taxonomists from ESF's International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE).

Every year since 2008, a team of taxonomists from SUNY's Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) have been pouring over the previous year's new species discoveries to select their favorite 10 for an annual shout - out.