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SUBMITTER: Kraichak E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5442095 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kraichak Ekaphan E Crespo Ana A Divakar Pradeep K PK Leavitt Steven D SD Lumbsch H Thorsten HT
Scientific reports 20170523 1
Comparable taxonomic ranks within clades can facilitate more consistent classifications and objective comparisons among taxa. Here we use a temporal approach to identify taxonomic ranks. This is an extension of the temporal banding approach including a Temporal Error Score that finds an objective cut-off for each taxonomic rank using information for the current classification. We illustrate this method using a data set of the lichenized fungal family Parmeliaceae. To assess its performance, we s ...[more]