The joys of mapping names in TreeBASE

Roderic Page · 2007

Here's a fun example of how databases get out of sync, making them harder to link up. TreeBASE taxon T4628 is labelled Bolitoglossa sombra , which doesn't exist in NCBI's taxonomy database, which is odd as the study by Mueller et al. (S1139) is a molecular phylogeny (doi:10.1073/pnas.0405785101), and the taxon concerned has had its whole mitochondrial genome sequenced.

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