eprintid: 10109589
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datestamp: 2020-09-08 15:42:19
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creators_name: Mallet, J
title: Alternative views of biological species: reproductively isolated units or genotypic clusters?
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C08
divisions: D09
divisions: F99
note: Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of China Science Publishing & Media Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: Wang et al. in this journal argue that it may be time to abandon a classic idea about species, the biological species concept (BSC), given recent findings with genomic data on closely related taxa. Furthermore, they propose a set of tests on genetic or genomic data that might lead to acceptance or rejection of the biological species concept.

Wang et al. are not the first to critique the biological species concept (BSC), which has survived an onslaught of attacks from many fronts. What is the biological species concept? And what is the new critique about? In this commentary, I briefly cover the history of ideas about biological species, then discuss current work that depends on rich, genome-scale sequence data, before attempting to resolve issues.
date: 2020-08
date_type: published
publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa116
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa116
lyricists_name: Mallet, James
lyricists_id: JMALL47
actors_name: Mallet, James
actors_id: JMALL47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: National Science Review
volume: 7
number: 8
pagerange: 1401-1407
citation:        Mallet, J;      (2020)    Alternative views of biological species: reproductively isolated units or genotypic clusters?                   National Science Review , 7  (8)   pp. 1401-1407.    10.1093/nsr/nwaa116 <https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr%2Fnwaa116>.       Green open access   
 
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