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Computer-Assisted Taxonomy and Documentation

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Systematics and Evolution

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 7B))

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In the past few years, the development of affordable, powerful personal computers has encouraged taxonomists to use methods that were formerly reserved for a selected group of experts whose knowledge of computing was broad, but whose skills in handling the complexity of taxonomic problems were often rudimentary. The development of inexpensive and user-friendly software enabled researchers to concentrate on the biological aspects of taxonomy, at the same time, however, allowing them to make use of the power offered by modern computers. Phenetic analysis of complex datasets, including both morphological and biochemical characters, as well as the use of cladistics for large DNA and protein sequences, have thus allowed us a better and more objective judgement of the relationships within and among taxa.

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Petrini, O., Sieber, T.N. (2001). Computer-Assisted Taxonomy and Documentation. In: McLaughlin, D.J., McLaughlin, E.G., Lemke, P.A. (eds) Systematics and Evolution. The Mycota, vol 7B. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10189-6_8

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