[Taxacom] General call to collaboration

[John Grehan]

It would be rather ironic if, in the future, the only 'valid' DNA
characteristics for species and their relationships were those that were
correlated with, or involved in the formation of, morphogenetic features.
Good thing that this question won't be resolved until long after I have
departed, so I won't have to eat my hat - at least not in this life.

Cheers, John Grehan

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:18 AM David Campbell via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> As a paleontologist (who also does DNA work on modern taxa), I would point
> out that not all taxa are amenable to molecular analysis.  Barcodes are
> useful in many taxa (and better as a diagnosis than the genus name based on
> length of ITS1), but far from inerrant - certain groups of snails have
> unexplained divergent mitochondrial sequences, for example.
>
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