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Zoology
Rudiger Bieler
Summary: American conchologist Isaac Lea introduced over 1,800 names of molluscan species between 1827 and 1874, but faced challenges in determining accurate dates of his original descriptions due to his idiosyncratic publishing methods. His frequent modifications to his taxonomic names in subsequent publications without clear justification added to the difficulty of interpreting his work. The study analyzed Lea's name substitutions and modifications, covering 231 species introduced by him, and discussed issues related to precise dating and classification under the ICZN Code.
Editorial Material
Microbiology
Sybren de Hoog, Thomas J. Walsh, Sarah A. Ahmed, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Barbara D. Alexander, Maiken Cavling Arendrup, Esther Babady, Feng-Yan Bai, Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat, Andrew Borman, Anuradha Chowdhary, Andrew Clark, Robert C. Colgrove, Oliver A. Cornely, Tanis C. Dingle, Philippe J. Dufresne, Jeff Fuller, Jean-Pierre Gangneux, Connie Gibas, Heather Glasgow, Yvonne Graeser, Jacques Guillot, Andreas H. Groll, Gerhard Haase, Kimberly Hanson, Amanda Harrington, David L. Hawksworth, Randall T. Hayden, Martin Hoenigl, Vit Hubka, Kristie Johnson, Julianne V. Kus, Ruoyu Li, Jacques F. Meis, Michaela Lackner, Fanny Lanternier, Sixto M. Leal Jr, Francesca Lee, Shawn R. Lockhart, Paul Luethy, Isabella Martin, Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, Wieland Meyer, M. Hong Nguyen, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Elizabeth Palavecino, Preeti Pancholi, Peter G. Pappas, Gary W. Procop, Scott A. Redhead, Daniel D. Rhoads, Stefan Riedel, Bryan Stevens, Kaede Ota Sullivan, Paschalis Vergidis, Emmanuel Roilides, Amir Seyedmousavi, Lili Tao, Vania A. Vicente, Roxana G. Vitale, Qi-Ming Wang, Nancy L. Wengenack, Lars Westblade, Nathan Wiederhold, Lewis White, Christina M. Wojewoda, Sean X. Zhang
Summary: The rapid pace of name changes of medically important fungi creates challenges for clinical laboratories and clinicians. Suggestions are made to reduce the number of name changes and provide diagnostic markers. It is recommended to maintain stability at the genus level and report both overarching species and molecular siblings. An open access online database of all medically important fungi names is essential, and new name changes should be reviewed routinely by a standing committee.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Microbiology
Erik Munson, Karen C. Carroll
Summary: Understanding novel prokaryotic taxon discovery and nomenclature revisions is crucial for clinical microbiology laboratory practice, infectious disease epidemiology, and microbial pathogenesis studies. Recent summaries of taxonomic designations and revisions have included changes in several bacterial genera, highlighting the need for further efforts to determine their clinical relevance and support.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Paul E. Skelley, Richard A. B. Leschen, Zhenhua Liu
Summary: This text primarily discusses nomenclatural concerns in the Australian fauna of the subfamily Erotylinae within the family Erotylidae, correcting and attributing several genera and species. It also clarifies the relationships between various synonyms and species within a subgenus, as well as formally proposing new combinations for two previously unpublished genus-species associations.
Article
Zoology
Stefano Mammola, Nathan Viel, Dylan Amiar, Atishya Mani, Christophe Herve, Stephen B. Heard, Diego Fontaneto, Julien Petillon
Summary: Based on a study of 48,464 spider etymologies, it was found that taxonomists' naming of species is deeply influenced by their cultural background, and naming practices have changed over time and space. The use of etymologies referring to morphology was most common in absolute terms, but their use declined over time while etymologies dedicated to people and geography increased. There was also a significant increase in etymologies referring to pop culture and other cultural aspects in the 2000-2020 period, particularly in Europe and the Americas.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Review
Microbiology
Sara D. Lawhon, Claire R. Burbick, Erik Munson, Elizabeth Thelen, Amanda Zapp, Anastasia Wilson
Summary: The study describes the discovery of new taxa in the microbial world of domestic animals in 2022 and discusses the implications of these changes. The newly discovered species include Moraxella nasovis, which causes respiratory disease in sheep, novel members of Campylobacteraceae associated with spotty liver disease in chickens, and diverse organisms from the microbiota of dogs, pigs, honeybees, and other important pollinators. The findings also highlight the presence of diseases in cattle, such as mastitis, endocarditis, orchitis, and endometritis, as well as the identification of a new species, Pseudochrobactrum algeriense, isolated from the mammary lymph nodes of cows.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Giulio Barone, Gianniantonio Domina, Fabrizio Bartolucci, Gabriele Galasso, Lorenzo Peruzzi
Summary: Senecio squalidus, a plant species of the Asteraceae family, consists of nine subspecies. A comprehensive study was conducted to examine the nomenclatural types of this taxonomic group, resulting in the designation of 14 lectotypes. Field investigations and nomenclatural analysis led to the acceptance of 10 species and the proposal of two new names.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Theresa J. Smith, Kristin M. Schill, Charles H. D. Williamson
Summary: Botulinum neurotoxins are a group of protein toxins with similar structures and activities, produced by different bacteria. The nomenclature of these toxins and bacteria has been evolving, which is crucial for accurate reporting of information.
Article
Microbiology
Karen C. C. Carroll, Erik Munson, Susan M. M. Butler-Wu, Sheila Patrick
Summary: The mnemonic SPICE, used to remind about the presence of bla(ampC) gene, lost its relevance when Enterobacter aerogenes was renamed Klebsiella aerogenes based on whole-genome sequencing. With the increasing use of WGS for taxonomy, bacteria and fungi undergo constant name changes, posing challenges for clinical microbiology laboratories.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Adyasha Panda, Salim T. Islam, Gaurav Sharma
Summary: In this article, Lloyd and Tahon criticize the proposed changes in bacterial phylum nomenclature and highlight several pitfalls of the new framework. They suggest new names for key bacterial phyla while keeping the archaeal phylum names. These changes aim to achieve a consistent and chaos-free nomenclature for researchers.
Article
Microbiology
Adyasha Panda, Salim T. Islam, Gaurav Sharma
Summary: This article criticizes the proposed changes in bacterial phylum nomenclature by the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes and discusses the potential problems and suggestions for improvement.
Article
Plant Sciences
Eugeny Boltenkov, Attila Mesterhazy
Summary: This report provides a description and taxonomical information of five names in Iris, including I. balkana, I. cretensis, I. lorea, I. mellita, and I. sintenisii, as described by Viktor Janka von Bulcs. The author designates lectotypes and neotypes for certain names and corrects the lectotype of I. cretensis. The report also includes images of the accepted taxa.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bhavesh Raghoonundon, Rui-Lin Zhao, Mao-Qiang He, Teun Boekhout, Bart Buyck, Bao-Kai Cui, Naveed Davoodian, Jozsef Geml, Makoto Kakishima, Tai-Hui Li, Eric H. C. McKenzie, Olivier Raspe, Else C. Vellinga, Annemieke Verbeken, Alfredo Vizzini, Kevin D. Hyde
Summary: Basidiomycota is a major phylum in the kingdom Fungi, with a complex classification system that has been rapidly evolving due to advances in molecular phylogeny. The website www.basidio.org/ serves as a platform to gather scattered taxonomic data and provide up-to-date information on Basidiomycota in a user-friendly manner.
CHIANG MAI JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser
Summary: We introduce the term 'nomenclatural harvesting' to describe the act of generating taxon names for operational taxonomic units (OTUs) in phylogenetic trees without any scientific or practical basis. This can disrupt established nomenclature by flooding it with questionable new names, and has wider implications for clinical toxinology, biodiversity studies, and public trust in science. Implementing changes to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and including language in publications to authenticate research and specimen work could help address this issue.
JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Zhiyong Zhang, Muhammad Idrees, Xu Zheng, Yongqing Jiao, Zakaria H. Prodhan
Summary: Two new names, Dracaena neoparviflora and Dracaena ridleyii, are proposed as replacement names for D. parviflora Baker and D. nutans Ridl. respectively. Lectotypes and neotype are designated for multiple species.
Editorial Material
Paleontology
Joachim T. Haug, Dany Azar, Andrew Ross, Jacek Szwedo, Bo Wang, Antonio Arillo, Viktor Baranov, Julia Bechteler, Rolf Beutel, Vladimir Blagoderov, Xavier Delclos, Jason Dunlop, Kathrin Feldberg, Rodney Feldmann, Christia Foth, Rene H. B. Fraaije, Alexander Gehler, Danilo Harms, Lars Hedenas, Matus Hyzny, John W. M. Jagt, Elena A. Jagt-Yazykova, Ed Jarzembowski, Hans Kerp, Phyo Kay Khine, Alexander G. Kirejtshuk, Christian Klug, Dmitry S. Kopylov, Ulrich Kotthoff, Juergen Kriwet, Ryan C. McKellar, Andre Nel, Christian Neumann, Alexander Nuetzel, Enrique Penalver, Vincent Perrichot, Anna Pint, Eugenio Ragazzi, Ledis Regalado, Mike Reich, Jouko Rikkinen, Eva-Maria Sadowski, Alexander R. Schmidt, Harald Schneider, Frederick R. Schram, Guenter Schweigert, Paul Selden, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Monica M. Solorzano-Kraemer, Jeffrey D. Stilwell, Barry W. M. van Bakel, Francisco J. Vega, Yongdong Wang, Lida Xing, Carolin Haug
Article
Zoology
Lenka Neal, Gordon L. J. Paterson, David Blockley, Ben Scott, Emma Sherlock, Cate Huque, Adrian G. Glover
Article
Entomology
Michal Mantic, Tomas Sikora, Nikola Burdikova, Vladimir Blagoderov, Jostein Kjaerandsen, Olavi Kurina, Jan Sevcik
Article
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Massimiliano Assante, Alice Boizet, Leonardo Candela, Donatella Castelli, Roberto Cirillo, Gianpaolo Coro, Enol Fernandez, Matthias Filter, Luca Frosini, Teodor Georgiev, George Kakaletris, Panagis Katsivelis, Rob Knapen, Lucio Lelii, Rob M. Lokers, Francesco Mangiacrapa, Nikos Manouselis, Pasquale Pagano, Giancarlo Panichi, Lyubomir Penev, Fabio Sinibaldi
Summary: The advancements in IT solutions and open science movement are bringing changes to data practices in various fields, including agri-food, but researchers in this area face challenges due to fragmented assets. The AGINFRA PLUS project aims to provide Virtual Research Environments to researchers, facilitating asset use and collaboration to overcome these limitations.
CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Marcus Guidoti, Felipe Lorenz Simoes, Tatiana Petersen Ruschel, Valdenar Darosa Goncalves, Carolina Sokolowicz, Donat Agosti
Summary: Through a descriptive analysis of the bibliographic production of Dr. Jocelia Grazia, it was found that she published 200 new names, including 183 species and 17 genera, with a total of 1,444 taxonomic treatments. Additionally, her publications contained 544 figures, 50 tables, 2,242 references, 2,107 materials citations, and 1,101 treatment citations.
Biographical-Item
Zoology
Yuri M. Marusik, Victor Fet
Editorial Material
Zoology
Yuri M. Marusik, Vladimir Blagoderov
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Laura Van der Jeucht, Quentin Groom, Donat Agosti, Kendra Phelps, DeeAnn Marie Reeder, Nancy B. Simmons
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Mariya Dimitrova, Viktor E. Senderov, Teodor Georgiev, Georgi Zhelezov, Lyubomir Penev
Summary: OpenBiodiv is a biodiversity knowledge graph that combines knowledge extracted from academic literature with the taxonomic backbone used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The new release of OpenBiodiv-LOD expands biodiversity entities through information extraction and modelling, utilizing OpenBiodiv-O ontology and accompanying software packages for transformation of academic literature into RDF. Performance issues arising from large amount of inferred statements in the graph are discussed, leading to the conclusion that OWL-full inference is impractical for the project and unnecessary inference should be avoided.
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Vincent Smith, Lisa French, Sarah Vincent, Matt Woodburn, Wouter Addink, Christos Arvanitidis, Olaf Banki, Ana Casino, Francois Dusoulier, Falko Glockler, Donald Hobern, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Dimitrios Koureas, Patricia Mergen, Joe Miller, Leif Schulman, Aino Juslen
Summary: This article explores the complex landscape and organizational structure of biodiversity informatics, showcasing the specialization and breadth of various organizations in different fields, differing in the types of data handled, geographic scope, and supported data lifecycle stages. The authors surveyed the activities and strategic goals of ten organizations by developing a framework and dataset.
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Biology
Mariya Dimitrova, Raissa Meyer, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Teodor Georgiev, Georgi Zhelezov, Seyhan Demirov, Vincent Smith, Lyubomir Penev
Summary: The omics data paper introduces a new article structure and template to enhance data quality and usability by describing omics datasets and methodologies. Importing genomics metadata into the manuscript through publication and review processes enhances existing metadata.
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Biology
Robert S. de Moya, Julie M. Allen, Andrew D. Sweet, Kimberly K. O. Walden, Ricardo L. Palma, Vincent S. Smith, Stephen L. Cameron, Michel P. Valim, Terry D. Galloway, Jason D. Weckstein, Kevin P. Johnson
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2019)
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Information Science & Library Science
Lyubomir Penev, Mariya Dimitrova, Viktor Senderov, Georgi Zhelezov, Teodor Georgiev, Pavel Stoev, Kiril Simov
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Mathematical & Computational Biology
Ben Scott, Ed Baker, Matt Woodburn, Sarah Vincent, Helen Hardy, Vincent S. Smith
DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
E. Louise Allan, Laurence Livermore, Benjamin W. Price, Olha Shchedrina, Vincent S. Smith
BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
(2019)
