Nicotiana is found predominantly in the Americas and Australia, but also has representatives Africa Pacific Islands. All native Australian species belong to section Suaveolentes. The number of this uncertain subject revision. An example uncertainty taxonomic status a South accession colloquially termed ‘Corunna’. Here, we report sequences for nuclear plastid markers N. sp. Corunna (D.E.Symon 17...

a multivariate statistical analysis was performed on morphological characters of sixty-one populations of avena eriantha dur. a. clauda dur., a. barbata pott ex link., a. wiestii steud., a. fatua l., a. sterilis ssp. ludoviciana l. and a. sativa l. factor analysis revealed that intraspecific morphological variations are due to quantitative characters. interspecific as well as intersectional rel...

A phenetic analysis of the 12 taxa or operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to the three sections; Genea, Neobromus, and Nevskiella of the genus Bromus was performed. Unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages (UPGMA) and weighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages (WPGMA) clustering and factoriel method analyses were used to set the taxa apart. Forty-four characters...

A well-preserved calcaneus referrable to Proteopithecus sylviae from the late Eocene Quarry L-41 in the Fayum Depression, Egypt, provides new evidence relevant to this taxon's uncertain phylogenetic position. We assess morphological affinities of the new specimen using three-dimensional geometric morphometric analyses with a comparative sample of primate calcanei representing major extinct and ...

A morphometric survey examined adult specimens of Lutzomyia whitmani (Antunes & Coutinho) captured at 5 municipalities in southeastern and northeastern Brazil to compare the populations. The localities were Ilhéus (Bahia), Martinho Campos (Minas Gerais), Corte de Pedra (Bahia), Baturité (Ceará), and Amaraji (Pernambuco): all are known foci of American cutaneous leishmaniasis. Fifteen males and ...

The practice of classifying organisms into hierarchical groups originated with Aristotle and was codified into nearly immutable biological law by Linnaeus. The heart of taxonomy is the biological species, which forms the foundation for higher levels of classification. Whereas species have long been established among sexual eukaryotes, achieving a meaningful species concept for prokaryotes has b...