The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be ...

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...

Taxonomists, scientists who classify complex organisms, in different fields didn’t define species the same way, and classification systems were largely inefficient and poorly governed. Postimages For ...

A molecular and morphological re-evaluation recognizes 77 genera and 202 species in the marine fungal family Halosphaeriaceae ...

Are species constructs of the human mind? -- Why is there a species problem? -- Is the biological species a class or is it an individual? -- What are traits in taxonomy? -- Diversity within the ...

A study combining dominant molecular markers and DNA barcoding classified 109 Chinese prickly ash accessions and found that ...

Science, in practice, is a series of evolving processes informed by hypotheses and theories, with the hopeful endpoints of discovery and dissemination of knowledge to others. In a case study using ...