[Taxacom] DNA only descriptions

[Sergio Vargas]

I remember that not so long ago someone somewhere attempted to
describe a species using a diagnosis like follows (don't remember the
exact words):

species A: gap in position 250-256...

referring to an ITS alignment... Too many people is interested in
DNA-only descriptions because... well, they cannot do morphology... If
there's no problem as long as the DNA sequence is linked to an
holotype... then why not to describe the morphology of the holotype as
well?

sergio



On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM,  <taxacom-request at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
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> 'We find no compelling evidence to exclude DNA-only descriptions, ...'
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> what "evidence" did they expect?
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Sergio Vargas R., M.Sc.
Molecular Geo- and Palaeobiology Lab.
Dept. of Geo- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology
LMU München
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