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 characterizati...

in this study, the systematic position of acanthalburnus microlepis from kura and aras basins is clarified and some notes on the taxonomy of the acanthobrama species distributed in turkey are given. based on the morphological and osteological analyses, a high similarity between a. microlepis and acanthobrama members is found. some taxonomic information yielded from the examination of recent col...

b a ckground: anoph eles fluviatilis , one of the major malaria vectors in iran, is assumed to be a complex of sibling species. the aim of this study was to evaluate cytochrome oxidase i (coi) gene alongside 28s-d3 as a diagnostic tool for identification of an. fluviatilis sibling species in iran. m e t hods: dna sample belonging to 24 an. fluviatilis mosquitoes from different geographical area...

Nine Dictyuchus isolates were obtained from floating and decaying twigs and leaves in Anzali lagoon, Anzali County, Guilan province, Iran. They are interestingly distinguished from current Dictyuchus species by the presence of dictyoid and achlyoid type of zoospore discharge, abundant fusiform and spherical gemma, and the absence of any sexual apparatus. In addition, phylogene...

NEWT is a new taxonomy portal to the SWISS-PROT protein sequence knowledgebase. It contains taxonomy data, which is updated daily, for the complete set of species represented in SWISS-PROT, as well as those stored at the NCBI. Users can navigate through the taxonomy tree and access corresponding SWISS-PROT protein entries. In addition, a manually curated selection of external links allows acces...