New Metrics for Comparison of Taxonomies Reveal Striking Discrepancies among Species Delimitation Methods in Madascincus Lizards

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Miralles, Aurélien ^a,b   Vences, Miguel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; HAPLOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIZARD; MADASCINCUS; MADASCINCUS ARENICOLA; MADASCINCUS IGNEOCAUDATUS; MADASCINCUS MELANOPLEURA; MADASCINCUS MOUROUNDAVAE; MADASCINCUS NANUS; MADASCINCUS POLLENI; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE TAXONOMIC RESOLVING POWER INDEX; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC INDEX OF CONGRUENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880059710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068242     Document Type: Article

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