Development and characterization of chloroplast simple sequence repeat markers for Prunus taxa (eleven Japanese native taxa and two foreign taxa)

NEW TAXA RECORDS OF CAREX FROM IRAN

The genus Carex belongs to tribe Cariceae, subfamily Caricoideae and family Cyperaceae. This genus, with about 2000 species in the world and more than 50 species in Iran, is the largest genus among the family. In expedition to North West and West of Iran, two species, namely, Carex acuta and C. cilicica as new records and C. flava, C. rostrata and C. supina as reinvestigated species are reporte...

Running head. SELECTING TAXA TO SAVE OR SEQUENCE Selecting Taxa to Save or Sequence: Desirable Criteria and a Greedy Solution

— Three desirable properties for any method of selecting a subset of evolutionary units (EUs) for conservation or for genomic sequencing are discussed. These properties are: spread, stability, and applicability. We are motivated by a practical case in which the maximization of phylogenetic diversity (PD), which has been suggested as a suitable method, appears to lead to counter-intuitive collec...

Inventory of new microbial taxa from Iran

Microorganisms constitute more than half of the Earth's biomass and in addition to quantity,they represent great diversity. In January 2013, the number of officially registered names forprokaryotic microorganisms at the genus and species levels were, respectively, approximately2100 and 12000. Current authorized methods for classification and identification of newmicrobial taxa are polyphasic ap...

Supertree Algorithms for Nested Taxa

Most supertree algorithms combine collections of rooted phylogenetic trees with overlapping leaf sets into a single rooted phylogenetic tree. It is implicit in all these algorithms that the leaves of the rooted phylogenetic trees in the input collection, as a whole, represent non-nested taxa. Thus, for example, the “domestic dog” and “mammal” cannot be represented by two distinct leaves in such...

Invertebrates: Rotifer Taxa – Bdelloidea