Taxonomy: renaissance or Tower of Babel?
Taxonomy: renaissance or Tower of Babel?
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DOI：
10.1016/s0169-5347(02)00061-7
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发表时间：
2003-02-01
影响因子：
16.8
通讯作者：
Willmott, K
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作者：
Mallet, J;Willmott, K
分类学是对生物进行命名和分类的科学，是原始的生物信息学，也是所有生物学的基本基础。然而，在过去的几十年里，分类学的教学和资金都在减少。去年，分类学突然再次流行起来，现在人们正在考虑使用DNA和互联网技术进行分类的革命性方法。有关示例，请参阅Tautz等人的文章。在本期的TREE中，以及Hebert等人的另一篇论文中。正在进行中。R.Soc.朗德。Ser B.对分类学的新兴奋，部分是由技术进步推动的，部分是由于生物多样性危机带来的新的感知需求。为了改革和建立分类学家已经取得的成就，生物界现在必须开始寻求共识，避免分裂为具有多个相互竞争目标的喧嚣的子学科。
Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the original bioinformatics and a fundamental basis for all biology. Yet over the past few decades, teaching and funding of taxonomy has declined. Last year, taxonomy suddenly became fashionable again, and revolutionary approaches to taxonomy using DNA and Internet technology are now being contemplated. For examples, see the article by Tautz et al. in this issue of TREE, and a separate paper by Hebert et al. in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser B. The new excitement about taxonomy is driven partly by advances in technology, and partly by newly perceived needs given the biodiversity crisis. To reform and build on what taxonomists have already accomplished, the biology community must now begin to seek consensus, and avoid fragmenting into vociferous subdisciplines with multiple, competing aims.