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Tree species identification using images of the bark is a challenging problem that could help in tasks such as drone navigation in forest environment and autonomous forest inventory management. It also brings more value to harvesting operations as it leads to greater market values of trees. While the recent progress in deep learning showed its effectiveness for visual classification, it cannot ...

Due to the increasing use of the Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS also called T-LiDAR) technology in the forestry domain, many researchers and forest management organizations have developed several algorithms for the automatic measurement of forest inventory attributes. However, to the best of our knowledge not much has been done regarding single tree species recognition based on T-LiDAR data de...

Recently diverged species are challenging for identification, yet they are frequently of special interest scientifically as well as from a regulatory perspective. DNA barcoding has proven instrumental in species identification, especially in insects and vertebrates, but for the identification of recently diverged species it has been reported to be problematic in some cases. Problems are mostly ...

abstract background: fascioliasis, caused by fasciola hepatica and f. gigantica , has medical and economic importance in the world. molecular approaches comparing tradi­tional methods using for identification and characterization of fasciola spp. are precise and reliable. the aims of current study were molecular characterization of fasciola spp. in west azerbaijan province, iran and then compar...

Motivation: Millions of genes in the modern species belong to only thousands of gene families. Genes duplicate and are lost during evolution. A gene family includes instances of the same gene in different species and duplicate genes in the same species. Two genes in different species are ortholog if their common ancestor lies in the most recent common ancestor of the species. Because of complex...