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Sometimes a set of OTUs will form a new genus. That is, you will want to add a species, and will find that the genus that it goes in doesn't exist yet in OTT.
Sometimes there will be a new genus consisting of a mix of existing and new species (splitting).
Sometimes a genus name X known to OTT will be a synonym of genus Y because it was merged ('lumped') into Y. But a better classification (according to the curator) would be to undo the merge, and re-assert X on its own footing. At this point we reduce to the previous case, since X will consist of a mix of old taxa (currently in Y) and new ones from the study. (e.g. Laverania and Plasmodium, thanks @bredelings)
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Sometimes a set of OTUs will form a new genus. That is, you will want to add a species, and will find that the genus that it goes in doesn't exist yet in OTT.
Sometimes there will be a new genus consisting of a mix of existing and new species (splitting).
Sometimes a genus name X known to OTT will be a synonym of genus Y because it was merged ('lumped') into Y. But a better classification (according to the curator) would be to undo the merge, and re-assert X on its own footing. At this point we reduce to the previous case, since X will consist of a mix of old taxa (currently in Y) and new ones from the study. (e.g. Laverania and Plasmodium, thanks @bredelings)
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: