Hidden complexity: An assessment of species diversity within the genus Discostella (Bacillariophyta)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The centric diatom genus <i>Discostella</i> is common in freshwater communities worldwide. Sixteen extant species are currently known, many of which are morphologically very similar. In applied taxonomy mostly broader concepts of <i>D. stelligera</i> and <i>D. pseudostelligera</i> are used. To assess the species diversity of the genus, 58 strains were cultivated and investigated using morphometric and molecular methods, obtaining the first multi-gene phylogeny of <i>Discostella</i>. Up to 22 operational taxonomic units were identified. For the taxonomic assignment of the OTUs a detailed morphological analysis including several type materials was performed. Up to 15 OTUs did not fit any existing taxon, revealing previously undetected diversity in the genus. A comparison of the different molecular markers revealed hints of a more complex intrageneric structure possibly due to reticulate evolutionary processes. The identity and generic placement of <i>D. glomerata</i> is resolved and <i>D. angainor</i> sp. nov. is described.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".