Sentences with phrase «taxonomist at»

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.

Linnaeus, born in southern Sweden in 1707, was an «intensely practical» man, according to Sandra Knapp, a botanist and taxonomist at the Natural History Museum in London.

«Pull out the genitalia,» says Maxi Polihronakis, a beetle taxonomist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, «and often everything becomes clear.»

Not exact matches

As a result, past taxonomists had categorized the variants as subspecies at best, meaning that although they bred together, they were morphologically or geographically distinct.

Recently, taxonomists Dr. Mingqiang Wang, Dr. Fuqiang Chen, Prof. Chaodong Zhu and Prof. Chunsheng Wu of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences described two genera and three species previously unknown to science discovered in southern China.

About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade, technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.

Each year an international committee of taxonomists — those who name and classify new species — gather at the IISE to discuss the newly named specimens and whittle them down to a top 10.

Hamm, now a data scientist at Monsanto in Woodland, California, also knew that taxonomists since Carl Linnaeus have struggled to distinguish species in Lepidoptera, the order of insects to which monarchs belong.

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.

Children may be natural - born taxonomists, but they are not all that good at it.

This binomial nomenclature guards against confusion if, say, a bug taxonomist and a mammal taxonomist (who tend to run in different scientific circles and probably are not reading each other's publications) want to (or inadvertently) assign the same species name to the group of organisms they happen to be excited about at the time.

Packrats and Possum Trot: Artists and Collectors of the Desert A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggest that we are all purveyors and taxonomists of discarded refuse, inorganic or otherwise.