On the use of genetic divergence for identifying species

By J. Ferguson. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

DNA barcoding and taxonomy in Diptera: a tale of high intraspecific variability and low identification success. (2006, background): “One should also remember that in contrast to the characters used in traditional taxonomy (e.g., genitalia, mating calls, coloration, etc.; e.g., Lee, 2004), the genes used in molecular taxonomy are not functionally correlated with speciation (Ferguson, 2002; Lee, 2004).”
Identifying earthworms through DNA barcodes (2007, background): “Measures of genetic divergence are often used to infer species boundaries because of the strong correlation between genetic divergence and reproductive isolation (Coyne and Orr 1989; Gleason and Ritchie 1998; Sasa et al. 1998; Ferguson 2002).”
Cryptic polychaete diversity: a review (2014, background): “A single-gene approach as in the Barcoding of life-initiative may be an efficient way of detecting cryptic diversity (Carr et al. 2011), but will not be sufficient for species delineations (Ferguson 2002).”
Nutritional evaluation of cookies produced from pigeon pea, cocoyam and sorghum flour blends (2011, background): “However, reservations continue to linger even with the hope of harmonizing DNA sequences with “species”: Ferguson (2002), for instance, argues that “.”
Comment on "Identifying spiders through DNA barcodes" (2005, background): “Despite opinions to the contrary (Wiens and Penkrot 2002; Blaxter 2003, 2004; Blaxter and Floyd 2003; Hebert et al. 2003a, 2003b, 2004a), DNA sequences used in isolation are widely considered inadequate for species delimitation, at least in eukaryotes ( Ferguson 2002; Tautz et al. 2002, 2003; Malle”
Phylogeography of the pool frog Rana (Pelophylax) lessonae in the Italian peninsula and Sicily: multiple refugia, glacial expansions and nuclear–mitochondrial discordance (2008, background): “The level of genetic divergence we observed using mtDNA, although not preventing their designation (Garcı́a-Parı́s et al., 2001), cannot be taken as evidence that the two lineages should be assigned to separate species (Johns & Avise, 1998; Ferguson, 2002).”
A comparison of algorithms for the identification of specimens using DNA barcodes: examples from gymnosperms (2007, background): “Ferguson (2002) provides an extensive explanation of why distances are inappropriate for species circumscription from a biosystematics perspective.”
OPERATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DELIMITING SPECIES (2004, background): “…and although there are broad correlations between D values and reproductive isolation in some groups (Coyne & Orr 1989, Sasa et al. 1998), there are enough exceptions to inflate error terms (on D estimates) sufficiently to compromise the diagnostic value of such correlations (Ferguson 2002).”
ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation (2012, background): “…a standard limit between intra-and inter-species divergence [e.g. 3 % of divergence (Smith et al. 2005) or the 10 · rule (Hebert et al. 2004)], none can be generalized to many groups of organisms (Fergusson 2002; Holland et al. 2004; Bichain et al. 2007; Go´mez et al. 2007; Meier et al. 2008).”
Review and Interpretation of Trends in DNA Barcoding (2019, background): “…and statistical reasons, not the least of which is that since they combine available character data into a single ensemble metric, they cannot test or summarize specific character homologies that would otherwise contribute to a diagnosis (Ferguson, 2002; DeSalle, 2007; Little and Stevenson, 2007).”