The practical need to partition the world of viruses into distinguishable, universally agreed upon entities is the ultimate justification for developing a virus classification system. Since 1971, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) operating on behalf of th…
The purpose of this book is to serve as a user's guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants ("Code"), specifically the Melbourne Code. The title was formally changed at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne in 2011, whereas prev…
Volume 1 covers 42 of the 106 families of flies (sometimes termed the Lower Diptera) and also includes introductory chapters dealing with morphology and terminology, natural history, economic importance and phylogeny of Diptera, as well as keys to all the Central American fly fa…
