[Taxacom] New species of the future

Tue Oct 29 18:19:55 CDT 2013

Speaking as someone who has spent a decent part of his career pushing the
boundaries of traditional limits for species exploration and discovery, I
applaud Pensoft for pushing the envelope in this case.  Maybe it's the
future, maybe it's not.  But someone should be exploring the frontier (we
need much more of this in our increasingly placid and conformist society).
I don't know how much the CT scan and sequencing "slowed down" the
publication, but I bet BDJ still turned it around faster than most
traditional journals would have.

By the way, we had similar CT scans done (via DigiMorph) for Chromis abyssus
and C. degruyi, back when we described them in 2008.  I just checked the
ZooBank records (http://zoobank.org/8BDC0735-FEA4-4298-83FA-D04F67C3FBEC,
and http://zoobank.org/1859B68B-340C-44F9-BEAB-D75BAED300F2, respectively)
and am delighted to see that the links to DigiMorph are still working just
fine.

Aloha,
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of JF Mate
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New species of the future
>
> I´m with Stephen on this one, but I would go further and ask if it´s
> really the future. I like the CT 3D type although I just don´t see it
> becoming mainstream in the medium term. My biggest doubt though is,
> why the transcriptome? It is quite expensive to do (unless you happen
> to have next gen equipment, but still not cheap) and it is not really
> diagnostic, not in the same way as a genome probably is (not many
> around to tell really), and since BGI has proposed the million genome
> project, wouldn´t it have made more sense to wait and do the full
> genome? I have checked the BGI website and there is no Myriapod listed
> (though there are two Chilopods). The sampling a bit off too but I am
> somewhat befuddled Eupolybothrus is not there (or at least another
Myriapod).
>
> Jason
>
>
> On 29 October 2013 11:42, Lyubomir Penev <lyubo.penev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > *Eupolybothrus cavernicolus*, a cave-dwelling centipede discovered
> > in a remote karst region of Croatia, has become the first new
> > eukaryotic species described with fully sequenced transcriptomic
> > profile, DNA barcoding , detailed anatomical X-ray micro-tomography
> > (micro-CT), and a movie of the living specimen, all this in addition
> > to the conventional morphological description, photos and SEM images.
> > This, most data-rich species description, represents also the first
> > biodiversity project that joins the ISA (Investigation-Study-Assay)
> > Commons, that is an approach created by the genomic and molecular
> > biology communities to store and describe different data types
> > collected in the course of a multidisciplinary study.
> >
> > Details are available through the following links:
> >
> > Original article:*Eupolybothrus cavernicolus* Komerički & Stoev sp. n.
> > (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): the first eukaryotic
> > species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and
> > micro-CT imaging data
> > <http://biodiversitydatajournal.com/articles.php?id=1013>
> >
> > GigaScience editorial: Biodiversity research in the "big data" era:
> > *
> > GigaScience* and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich
> > species description
> > <http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/content/2/1/14>
> >
> > Press release: The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big
> > data<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/pp-
> tcf102513.php>
> >
> > More on the ISA approach:Toward interoperable bioscience
> > data<http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n2/full/ng.1054.html>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Lyubomir
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