New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia

Screening of ticks from companion animals from Australia using genetic tools has recently been used to identify and name eight new species of Apicomplexan parasites. However, the diagnosis of these was based on genetic distinctiveness and phylogenetic relationships rather than determination of speci...

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Autor principal: Harris, D. James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30992062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3424-9
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description Screening of ticks from companion animals from Australia using genetic tools has recently been used to identify and name eight new species of Apicomplexan parasites. However, the diagnosis of these was based on genetic distinctiveness and phylogenetic relationships rather than determination of specific characters, which is required by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The recently proposed names are therefore invalid. The use of informal names is necessary until formal valid descriptions are available.
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spelling pubmed-64690402019-04-23 New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia Harris, D. James Parasit Vectors Letter to the Editor Screening of ticks from companion animals from Australia using genetic tools has recently been used to identify and name eight new species of Apicomplexan parasites. However, the diagnosis of these was based on genetic distinctiveness and phylogenetic relationships rather than determination of specific characters, which is required by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The recently proposed names are therefore invalid. The use of informal names is necessary until formal valid descriptions are available. BioMed Central 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6469040/ /pubmed/30992062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3424-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia
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title_full New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia
title_fullStr New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia
title_full_unstemmed New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia
title_short New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia
title_sort new species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from australia
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30992062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3424-9
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