Dark taxa: GenBank in a post-taxonomic world

2011/04/12 by Roderic Page · 1 voice · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Species Distribution and Climate Change

paper · doi:10.59350/xhvv2-xjt24

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Abstract

How to cite: <strong> Page, R. (2011). Dark taxa: GenBank in a post-taxonomic world. </strong>

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• I wrote a blog post on "dark taxa" doi.org/10.59350/xhv... on DNA sequences in GenBank that lacked proper scientific names. I suspect most people use #darktaxa to mean species we haven't discovered, w [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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