Sentences with phrase «taxonomists as»

The calico aster is a native of eastern North America and, although known in the trade as Aster lateriflorus, has been reclassified by taxonomists as Symphiotrichum lateriflorum.

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But the Superfamily Hominoidea, as taxonomists have long noted, comprises «apes and humans,» not just «apes.»

Without the advantage of genetic insight these early collectors and taxonomists named these many size, shape, and color forms as distinct taxa giving us a plethora of plant names that have only recently been sorted out reducing a long list of synonymy to four domesticated species.

Enter the amoeba: a collection of blobby, typically asexual microorganisms that taxonomists have historically swept under the rug as evolutionary oddities.

Once the tuna has been caught and cut up, even taxonomist have trouble identifying the exact specie of tuna, such as Northern, Pacific, and Southern.

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

Interpreting the scales as a sign of an early moth proboscis is «possible,» says taxonomist Erik van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose specialties include early moths.

Originally trained as a plant taxonomist, Célia Cabral likes to name and classify.

NORMALLY thought of as mild - mannered and meticulous, taxonomists in Britain and the US are preparing to break out of their dusty back rooms to do battle with the European Patent Office.

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.

Taxonomist Ken Hill of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and his co - workers reported this past year that both the cones and the DNA of the Wollemi pine place it in a family that includes pines such as the Chilean monkey puzzle tree and the New Zealand kauri pine.

«Many Indian taxonomists continued to erroneously refer to the Indian populations of Danaus genutia as Danaus plexippus.»

As National Geographic report, «To date, taxonomists have identified less than two million distinct species, mostly mammals and birds.

But even as climate scientists shake their heads in distress, plant taxonomists may be holding their heads in despair.

Linnaeus is given credit as the first real taxonomist of life.