Appearance not always enough to identify species

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 10:30 in Biology & Nature

Linnaean taxonomy is still a cornerstone of biology, but modern DNA techniques have erased many of the established boundaries between species. This has made identifying species difficult in practice, which can cause problems, as shown by a researcher Sweden.

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