TY - JOUR
T1 - Response to “How many species of giraffe are there?”
AU - Fennessy, Julian
AU - Winter, Sven
AU - Reuss, Friederike
AU - Kumar, Vikas
AU - Nilsson, Maria A.
AU - Vamberger, Melita
AU - Fritz, Uwe
AU - Janke, Axel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/2/20
Y1 - 2017/2/20
N2 - It is not unexpected that a proposal, such as ours [1], of four new mammalian species stirs up controversy, as evident in the correspondence by Bercovitch et al. [2]. We appreciate that their concerns are unrelated to the quality of the genetic data, the methodological approach or analyses, but are focused on the interpretation. Thus, we provided an analysis of giraffe speciation based on genomic sequence data, and not just “another viewpoint on giraffe taxonomy” [2]. We maintain our perspective that there is not only one but four species of giraffe (Figure 1).
AB - It is not unexpected that a proposal, such as ours [1], of four new mammalian species stirs up controversy, as evident in the correspondence by Bercovitch et al. [2]. We appreciate that their concerns are unrelated to the quality of the genetic data, the methodological approach or analyses, but are focused on the interpretation. Thus, we provided an analysis of giraffe speciation based on genomic sequence data, and not just “another viewpoint on giraffe taxonomy” [2]. We maintain our perspective that there is not only one but four species of giraffe (Figure 1).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.045
DO - 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.045
M3 - Letter
C2 - 28222288
AN - SCOPUS:85013287787
SN - 0960-9822
VL - 27
SP - R137-R138
JO - Current Biology
JF - Current Biology
IS - 4
ER -