Taxonomic science

To be precise, the word coral has no formal meaning in taxonomic science, but was originally used to describe any organic material which grew attached to the sea floor, and possessed a hard skeleton. Thus it covered calcareous algae and other creatures, as well as coelenterates - some of which are the animals today considered to be corals . 

Kurtzman CP, Fell JW (1998) The Yeasts a taxonomic study, 3rd edn. Elsevier Science, New York... 

Jansky, S. H., Simon, R., Spooner, D. M. (2006). A test of taxonomic predictivity Resistance to white mold in wild relatives of cultivated potato. Crop Science, 46, 2561-2570. 

Lodder. J., C.P. Kurtzman, and J.W. Fell The Yeasts, A Taxonomic Study, 4th Edition, Elsevier Science, New York. NY, 1998 Milner, M. and W.F. Geddes Grain Storage Studies. III. The Relation between Moisture Content, Mold Growth, and Respiration of Soybeans." Cereal Chem., 23, 225 (1946)... 

Kurt/maii. C.P. and J W Fell Yeasts A Taxonomic Study, Elsevier Science, New York, NY, 1998... 

Kreger-Van Rij, N.J.W. (1984) The Yeasts, A Taxonomic Study, 3rd edn, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. 

Mayer, H., Weckesser, J. Unusual lipid As structures, taxonomical relevance and potential value for endotoxin research. In Rietschel, E.T. (ed), Handbook of Endotoxin, Vol. 1 Chemistry of Endotoxin. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Netherlands (1984) pp. 221-247. 

Priisholm K, Moestrup 0, Lundholm N (2002) Taxonomic notes on the marine diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia in the Andaman Sea near the island of Phuket, Thailand, with a description of Pseudo-nitzschia micropora sp. nov. Diatom Res 17(1) 153—175 Proshkina-Lavrenko AI (1963) Benthic Diatoms of the Black Sea. Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Mos-cow-Leningrad, 237 p (in Russian)... 

Fukuyo, Y. 1981. Taxonomical study on benthic dinoflagellates collected in coral reefs. Bulletin of Japanese Society of Science and Fisheries 47(8) 967-978. 

Publications in plant systematica sometimes are built according to the stereotypical pattern in natural sciences definition of the problem - material and methods - results of observations and/or experiments - discussion. In many cases, however, the results of the systematic research are presented differently, viz. as a survey of a part of the system of classification. The degree of elaboration of the survey and the scope of the research (geographically and taxonomical-ly) may differ widely. The diagram in fig. 5 gives a diagram of the different types of classifying publications. 

R.E. Schultes et al., "Cannabis An Example of Taxonomic Neglect, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University 23 (1974) 337 E. Small, Interfertility and Chromosomal Uniformity in Cannabis," Canadian Journal of Botany 50(1972) 1947 W.A. Emboden, "Cannabis-k Polytypic Genus, Economic Botany 28 (1975) 304 E. Small, American Law and the Species Problem in Cannabis Science and Semantics, Bulletin on Narcotics 27 (1975) 1. 

Small, E. 1976. The forensic taxonomic debate on Cannabis. Semantic hokum Journal of Forensic Science 21 239—251. 

This evolution in QSAR was slow. As in many sciences, the evolution has been driven by discoveries of chemical behavior that could not be explained using conventional concepts and models. For example, Louis Pasteur recognized that optical activity (a phenomenon observed earlier ) was the result of the molecular dissymmetry later called chirality (from Greek cheir = hand). The concept of stereochemistry, however, was introduced by van t Hoff and Le Bel. It was V. Prelog" who pointed out that stereochemistry is not a branch of chemistry but a point of view. Part of this point of view is the description of structure that explains relevant behavior, which necessarily leads to additional levels of taxonomic analysis of chemicals. 

Taxonomy is the science of classification and has several functions. The first is to describe the species which is the basic taxonomic unit. The second is to catalogue these species into some arrangement enabling the relationships between species to be recognised. A third practical aspect is identification, that is, the matching of an unknown organism with a known species. 

Britten RJ (1986) Rates of DNA sequence evolution differ between taxonomic groups. Science 231 1393-1398... 

Mayr s mission at this particular time was to raise the status and value of systematics within the life sciences, not to develop — as Schmitt wanted — professional infrastructure within systematics. As he explained to Schmitt in March 1948, Mayr saw a noble purpose in this outward-looking effort The trouble with us taxonomists is that we are so busy with all sorts of jobs we don t get around to doing research, and when we do we usually don t have enough leisure to produce a good, all-around biological paper but have to be satished more or less with taxonomic revision (Mayr to Schmitt, March 9 1948, bAa r/Evolution Papers, folder Schmitt ). 

This was because the field of taxonomy never had been united, and there were already two dozen specialty societies. .. A program to invite affiliation of these societies was planned but never really got started. At about this time, the American Institute of Biological Sciences [AIBS] was formed. .. and it appeared that his function of affiliation might be better handled there. In time, it became obvious that the [AIBS] could not enlist the taxonomic societies of zoology, but by this time the plan had been dropped by the SSZ. (Blackwelder, 1979 158-159)... 

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