Publications by authors named "Pablo P Daniels"
DNA barcoding can identify biological species and provides an important tool in diverse applications, such as conserving species and identifying pathogens, among many others. If combined with statistical tests, DNA barcoding can focus taxonomic scrutiny onto anomalous species identifications based on morphological features. Accordingly, we put nonparametric tests into a taxonomic context to answer questions about our sequence dataset of the formal fungal barcode, the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS).
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- Two proposals have been put forward to allow DNA sequences to be used as types for naming certain fungi, which could fundamentally alter the definition of nomenclatural types and lead to various issues in scientific reproducibility and nomenclatural instability.
- The authors argue against these proposals, suggesting that they would not effectively address the challenges of naming taxa based solely on DNA and propose instead that formulas for naming candidate taxa could be a better solution without changing existing nomenclature rules.
This study explores species limits of a group of Clavaria species with taxonomic and nomenclatural problems and discusses the phylogeny and circumscription of the genus. The nuc 28S rDNA (28S) and internal transcribed spacer region phylogenies resolve species relationships, and the ITS is shown to be an adequate barcode marker for Clavaria. Yellow, clamped species of Clavaria are distributed in two clades, (i) C.
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