GenBank (Benson et al. 2013) is a database that contains genetic sequences of species. Godfray (2007) proposed that metagenomics can replace taxonomy in identifying specimens. Indeed, giving names to specimens is not the primary role of taxonomy, the discipline being devoted to the description of new species and to reconstruction of phylogenies, focusing on both genotypes and phenotypes. So, the use of metagenomics for routinary species identification is a welcome technological aid to the study of biodiversity, freeing taxonomists from the burden of sorting and identifying biological material.
Biodiversity, taxonomy and metagenomics / Olmo, E.; Boero, F.. - In: THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 2475-0263. - 84:1(2017), pp. 141-141. [10.1080/11250003.2016.1262634]
Biodiversity, taxonomy and metagenomics
Boero F.
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2017
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GenBank (Benson et al. 2013) is a database that contains genetic sequences of species. Godfray (2007) proposed that metagenomics can replace taxonomy in identifying specimens. Indeed, giving names to specimens is not the primary role of taxonomy, the discipline being devoted to the description of new species and to reconstruction of phylogenies, focusing on both genotypes and phenotypes. So, the use of metagenomics for routinary species identification is a welcome technological aid to the study of biodiversity, freeing taxonomists from the burden of sorting and identifying biological material.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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