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However, for inventories to be immediately relevant, the taxonomic process must reduce the time to describe and identify specimens.
Variant studies on ancient DNA have attempted to uncover population history [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] or identify specimens [8], [9], [10], [11].
However, the subtle morphological characters that separate closely related species often demand expert interpretation (e.g. [1]), forcing studies to either limit their taxonomic scope, or to only identify specimens to a higher taxonomic category (e.g. family, genus).
Molecular techniques are improving for routine identifications, but taxonomists will continue to be essential to identify specimens from which molecules are then extracted, to identify poorly-known taxa, and to describe new taxa.
The MRL Diagnostics HSV-2 IgG test was used to identify specimens with positive HSV-2 antibody.
Failure to identify specimens from photographs was due to inadequate photographs in 20 cases, or 64.5% of the 31 collections not confidently identified to species.
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Conversely, identified specimens are associated with specific patient identifiers, and therefore can be linked to the patient of origin.
." Brimming with curatorial pride, Norton identifies specimens without needing to check the labels beneath the bell jars: "The curly fry is Papaya King.
Among the 184 identified specimens of An. funestus sampled, only 76 specimens were clearly identified after DNA amplification and PCR.
NISP is defined as the number of identified specimens per taxon and is an observational unit, whereas MNI is defined as the minimum number of individual animals necessary to account for the set of identified bones (Lyman 1994).
A total of 1689 identified specimens were examined.
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