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saber mohammadi
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Hey, everybody. I have a question about taxonomic distribution. what does it mean exactly? would you please explain it to me?? Thanks a lot for your help.
It depends of the "subject" of distibution.
See these posts as examples:
Taxonomic Distribution Of A Protein
A: What Is The Species Distribution Of Uniprot
A: How To Determine If A Given Species(Or Tax Id) Belongs To A Given Environment (B
wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy
"Evolutionary taxonomy, evolutionary systematics or Darwinian classification is a branch of biological classification that seeks to classify organisms using a combination of phylogenetic relationship (shared descent), progenitor-descendant relationship (serial descent), and degree of evolutionary change. This type of taxonomy may consider whole taxa rather than single species, so that groups of species can be inferred as giving rise to new groups.[1] The concept found its most well-known form in the modern evolutionary synthesis of the early 1940s."
or
"In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among individuals or groups of organisms (e.g. species, or populations). These relationships are discovered through phylogenetic inference methods that evaluate observed heritable traits, such as DNA sequences or morphology under a model of evolution of these traits. The result of these analyses is a phylogeny (also known as a phylogenetic tree) – a diagrammatic hypothesis about the history of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms.[4] The tips of a phylogenetic tree can be living organisms or fossils, and represent the "end," or the present, in an evolutionary lineage. Phylogenetic analyses have become central to understanding biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and genomes."
etc
something unexpected:
http://nature.berkeley.edu/~penggong/PDFpapers/SSSAJ03.pdf
To which context are you referring? Have you done some basic research on the term?