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UITOTO: un software para generar diagnósticos moleculares para descripciones de especies

Ambrosio Torres¹, Leshon Lee^1,2, Amrita Srivathsan¹

¹Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany.

Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society

|December 20, 2025

Resumen

El software UITOTO identifica y valida combinaciones de diagnóstico molecular (DMC) para descripciones de especies. Supera a las herramientas existentes en precisión y eficiencia, ayudando en el descubrimiento de nuevas especies.

Sus antecedentes:

Millones de especies no descritas requieren diagnósticos moleculares para su identificación.
El software existente carece de capacidades para derivar y validar combinaciones de diagnóstico molecular (DMC) específicas de estado y contrastivas.

Conclusiones:

UITOTO ofrece una solución robusta para generar diagnósticos moleculares fiables, cruciales para la descripción de especies.
Equilibrar la especificidad y la longitud es clave para diagnósticos moleculares eficaces, de manera similar a los enfoques morfológicos.
El software facilita el proceso de identificación de especies e investigación taxonómica.

Palabras clave:

diagnóstico molecular descripción de especies identificación de especies bioinformática taxonomía UITOTO

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