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摘要
The inclusion of molecular characters into species descriptions is becoming increasingly accepted in the taxonomic community. Morphologically cryptic species might even require molecular taxonomy to be delimited and diagnosed. In current absence of established standard procedures and software, the practical application of molecular taxonomy proved to be non-trivial and fraught with potential pitfalls. Here we present a step-by-step guide how to extract diagnostic molecular characters via the Character Attribute Organization System (CAOS) software from sequence alignments to be used in formal species descriptions. We highlight the necessary technical and general considerations when extracting diagnostic characters from molecular sequence data and argue for using them within integrative taxonomic frameworks.
- 出版日期2014-8
