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Integrative taxonomy – Methods and Applications

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Title Integrative taxonomy – Methods and
Applications
 
Creator Sukumaran, Sandhya
Gopalakrishnan, A
 
Subject Fish Biotechnology
Taxonomy
 
Description Taxonomy is the discipline in biology aimed at characterizing
and naming taxa and taxonomy plays a major role in
conserving biodiversity. The central unit of taxonomy is
species and generating biological information requires
naming of species. Thousands of species are being named
every year since the advent of Linnaean nomenclature in 1758.
Alpha taxonomy relates to species level characterizations
whereas beta taxonomy is related to higher level studies.
The advent of new tools for species level identification of
groups of organisms has contributed immensely to the rapid
development of this branch of science. DNA sequencing
technologies, access to museum collections, information about
phyogenetics and phylogeography, advances in evolutionary
studies and computer tomography have revolutionized
conventional taxonomy in such a way that conventional
taxonomy could be supplemented and complemented with
information generated from all the above approaches. Species
delimitation and a scientific consensus on naming could be
achieved now by using a combination of different methods
along with traditional taxonomy tools and this is the objective
of integrative taxonomy. The term “integrative taxonomy”
was coined by Dayrat, 2005 to describe a comprehensive
approach to naming species.
 
Publisher CMFRI; Kochi
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10428/1/23_Sandhya_Sukumaran2.pdf
Sukumaran, Sandhya and Gopalakrishnan, A (2015) Integrative taxonomy – Methods and Applications. [Teaching Resource]