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A Few Things About Oviraptorosaurs

Subsequent to my post on Nick Longrich and colleagues proposed new taxonomy for an old oviraptorosaur, there has been some interest about some other oviraptorosaurs, and I felt it would be useful to w… more →

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A Few Things About Oviraptorosaurs — 3 comments

Jaime A. Headden wrote 3 weeks ago: Subsequent to my post on Nick Longrich and colleagues proposed new taxonomy for an old oviraptorosau … more →

Tags: Biological Comparison, Paleontology, Is [blank] an oviraptorosaur?, Oviraptorosaurs

The Value of Taxonomy

sandrakrichardson wrote 3 weeks ago: How to Build Your PPM Data Structure In many of our first meetings with prospective customers, the c … more →

Tags: Business Management, Business Optimization, Data, Taxonomy, "big data", PPM

Rhizobium pisi gains a symbiovar — 3 comments

rhizobium wrote 1 month ago: The concept of a symbiovar is key to understanding the diversity of rhizobia.  The genes that determ … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Rhizobium, Peas, Species, symbiovar, biovar, core genome, accessory genome, Rhizobium leguminosarum

Males with Morphologically Modified Mouthparts are Militant Mates — 4 comments

itsybitsybeetle wrote 1 month ago: [Alternate blog post title:  Mmmmmm....sexual dimorphism] Sexual dimorphism occurs across many diffe … more →

Tags: Recent Research, open access, New Species, Coleoptera, chrysomelidae, sexual dimorphism, enlarged male mandibles

138 new species...no big deal — 2 comments

itsybitsybeetle wrote 2 months ago: Whenever I’m talking about my work as a scientist, especially to young children, I usually men … more →

Tags: Recent Research, Teaching, New Species, Coleoptera, beetle, Taxonomy, histeridae, Clown Beetle

What is Good Taxonomy?

inquera wrote 2 months ago: A consensus on the definition good taxonomy is difficult to find because taxonomy is both an art and … more →

Tags: Taxonomy

"Toroceratops" Matters, as an Open Discussion — 12 comments

Jaime A. Headden wrote 3 months ago: So there’s this debate, which I may have discussed — more than once, twice, or thrice … more →

Tags: Paleontology, Philosophy, taphonomy, ceratopsians, ontogeny, Triceratops, taxo

From Rhizobium to Sinorhizobium, from Sinorhizobium to Ensifer? — 11 comments

rhizobium wrote 3 months ago: There are many publications on the bacteria that most people know as Sinorhizobium meliloti, S. fred … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium fredii, Sinorhizobium, Ensifer

Another gamma paper — 6 comments

rhizobium wrote 3 months ago: In my last post, I referred to a paper about gammaproteobacteria that were not rhizobia.  Here is an … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Papers, legume root nodules, Bradyrhizobium, beta-rhizobia, gamma-rhizobia

The Paleontological Gulf

M. Barton wrote 5 months ago: “Harpalus” redivivus (USNM-63444, holotype), a fossil ground beetle (Family Carabidae) f … more →

Tags: Entomology, Beetles, Paleontology, Colorado, carabidae, paleontology, Florissant Formation, Geadephaga, ground beetles

Dwarf puffer fish spotted for the first time in 'wild'

sibyphilips wrote 5 months ago: 13 years after its description we spotted the dwarf puffer in wild for the first time. YES!!! it was … more →

Tags: Nature Science, Science, aquarium specimens, Climate, Dwarf Puffer, Environment, ralf britz, Science

Using barcodes to identify unknown floras

Andy Lowe wrote 7 months ago: What do you do when you don’t have a taxonomist to help identify plants? This situation  is faced al … more →

Tags: Discovering Biodiversity, DNA barcoding, Biodiversity, DNA Barcoding, DNA barcode, Plants

Aminobacter huakuii — 4 comments

rhizobium wrote 8 months ago: The first complete rhizobial genome to be published was that of Aminobacter huakuii symbiovar loti s … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Papers, Species, symbiovar, biovar, Mesorhizobium, Aminobacter, Sinorhizobium, Ensifer

taxonomy tuesday - Hyloscirtus princecharlesi — 2 comments

itsybitsybeetle wrote 8 months ago: This beautiful and quite adorable frog was recently discovered from Ecuador and named after His Roya … more →

Tags: Recent Research, open access, frog, Hyloscirtus princecharlesi, New Species, Prince Charles, prince's rainforest project, Taxonomy

Not Up, But Down

Jaime A. Headden wrote 8 months ago: While I may wail on Linnaean Systematics and the issues with ranks, and the use and potential loss o … more →

Tags: science reporting, Biology, Linnaean Systematics, Systematics, snakes

Subcommittee of what?

rhizobium wrote 9 months ago: In my last post, I referred to the website of the ICSP Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Rhizobium and … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Rhizobium, legume root nodules, cross-inoculation groups, Species, core genome, accessory genome, bacteria, Agrobacterium

Trogloraptor!!! — 4 comments

itsybitsybeetle wrote 9 months ago: a lovely new cave dweller A new research article just published today describes a new genus and spec … more →

Tags: Creature Feature, Recent Research, Cave Spider, New Species, trogloraptor, Trogloraptor marchingtoni, Trogloraptoridae

Getting going again

rhizobium wrote 9 months ago: I have never been to a gym, but I imagine it is rather like writing a blog.  You finally take the pl … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Rhizobium, Genomes, Species, bacteria, Agrobacterium

The Genus Question -- Impact of New Archosaurian Binomina — 10 comments

Jaime A. Headden wrote 9 months ago: So, what exactly would happen if — as I suggested both here and mentioned in the comments here … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Systematics, Linnaean Systematics, The Genus Question


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