Problems with morphological identifications in the Verrucarum group have led to difficulties in identifying leishmaniasis vectors, 5, 6 establishing their distributions, 7 and clarifying their genetic relationships.
All anopheline mosquitoes were identified by morphological identification keys used in the area [ 28- 31].
The definite diagnosis usually depends on morphological identification of the organisms in wet slide preparations of cultures and/or direct identification in tissue specimens.
However, the major impediment to this application has been the limited capacities in morphological identification of taxonomic diversity for large volumes of biological samples in an accurate and high-throughput manner [ 9].
Accurate estimations of disease frequency and the relative effect of infection relating to different spirorchiid species are made difficult by challenges in morphological identification of adults of some genera, and a lack of species-level identifying features for ova.
Peichl and Wässle (1981) completed morphological identification of Y cells in the cat retina [17].
We acknowledge that restricting the reference set to a certain region neglects the possibility of invasions and garden escapes (although typical examples might be included in the database), but the same is true for common practice in morphological identification.
Introgression in Mt Do and Mt Tonta also differ in the genetic signature left in the chloroplast and nuclear genomes relative to the morphological identification of the introgressed trees: in Mt Do, trees were morphologically identified as A. biramulata, possessed A. biramulata cpDNA haplotypes but were predominantly assigned to A. laubenfelsii for nDNA.
When the in situ morphological identification is tricky, samples are sent to the National Plant Protection Laboratory LNPVV) which specializes in the molecular identification of plant pests and pathogens.
