“Code”: a Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora)
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ISSN 1066-5234 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Beyond the “Code”: A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora) Alan Warren1, David J. Patterson2, Micah Dunthorn3, John C. Clamp4, Undine E.M. Achilles-Day5, Erna Aescht6, Saleh A. Al-Farraj7, Saleh Al-Quraishy7, Khaled Al-Rasheid7, Martin Carr8, John G. Day9, Marc Dellinger10, Hamed A. El-Serehy7, Yangbo Fan11, Feng Gao11, Shan Gao11, Jun Gong12, Renu Gupta13, Xiaozhong Hu11, Komal Kamra14, Gaytha Langlois15, Xiaofeng Lin16, Diana Lipscomb17, Christopher S. Lobban18, Pierangelo Luporini19, Denis H. Lynn20, Honggang Ma11, Miroslav Macek21, Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds1, Seema Makhija22, Robert I. Mansergh23, Mercedes Martın-Cereceda24, Nettie McMiller4, David J.S. Montagnes25, Svetlana Nikolaeva26,27, Geoffrey Odhiambo Ong’ondo28, Blanca Perez-Uz 24, Jasmine Purushothaman29, Pablo Quintela-Alonso24, Johana Rotterova30, Luciana Santoferrara31, Chen Shao32, Zhuo Shen33, Xinlu Shi34, Weibo Song11, Thorsten Stoeck3, Antonietta La Terza19, Adriana Vallesi19, Mei Wang11, Thomas Weisse35, Krzysztof Wiackowski36, Lei Wu16, Kuidong Xu37, Zhenzhen Yi16, Rebecca Zufall38 & Sabine Agatha39 Affiliations are listed at the end. Keywords ABSTRACT Cultivation; information resources; molecular phylogeny; morphology; nomenclature; Recent advances in molecular technology have revolutionized research on all phylogenetics; systematics; taxonomy; aspects of the biology of organisms, including ciliates, and created unprece- type specimens.
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