Our Discovery Mission
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discover and document all remaining Australian species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms ... in a generation.
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How on Earth are we going to do this?
Roundtable 4: How can we most effectively use phylogenetics for our species discovery mission?
Session 2
1 May 2020 at 1:30:00 am
Michelle Guzik & Darren Crayn
Leader(s):
Phylogenetics and species delimitation are becoming more and more closely integrated. Placing specimens of a potentially new species into a phylogeny is a great start in any taxonomic project. However, for this to be maximally effective for an all-species mission such as we envisage, we really need a phylogeny of all known species. This roundtable will consider issues around phylogenetics and species discovery, including:
Is a phylogeny that includes all Australian species achievable in the medium term?
How would we best go about constructing such a phylogeny?
What systems would we need to have in place to manage a comprehensive phylogeny and allow it to be used effectively for species discovery and delimitation?
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Katharina Nargar
Australian Tropical Herbarium & National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO
