Sentences with word «systematist»

Equally impressed with the approach's potential is Alfried Vogler, a molecular systematist at Imperial College London.

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.

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 groups» scientists also surveyed systematists to fill out the species lists and drew on expert advice to create a new list of endangered species that includes species that haven't wound through the red tape to gain federal endangered status.

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.

«But no other group of scientists can add as much value through their work as systematists.

To protect them effectively, systematists need to fill the huge gaps in our knowledge of most groups of species, the report said.

A milestone came in 2014, when two reports in Current Biology «turned spider evolution upside down,» says Gustavo Hormiga, a spider systematist at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who co-led one of the studies.

«The incredibly detailed work of these researchers in bringing together the genetic, morphological, ecological, zoogeographic and paleontological data to clarify the relationships among the three alligator snapping turtle species should be emulated by other systematists and conservation biologists.»

To reconstruct the mighty American oak's history, Andrew Hipp, a plant systematist at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, and colleagues obtained tens of thousands of pieces of DNA from 300 trees representing 146 oak species.

For Charles Delwiche, a molecular systematist at the University of Maryland in College Park, and one of the principal investigators of the Assembling the Green Algal Tree of Life project that supported the work, the result shows how little is known about green algae, despite the fact that they gave rise to all land plants.

The systematists, of which I'm one, have built up a very large body of knowledge, and the genomicists are living off that capital.