Editorial

Abstract

Molecular tools are well established in marine microbiology and are increasingly being used with more complex marine taxa. Molecular data provide a complementary approach to discriminating species separated by subtle morphological characters. Recently, numerous studies have confirmed the usefulness of such data, in addition to morphology, as supplementary support for species identification. Until recently, larval and adult somatic morphology was the primary source of identification data, but over the past decade or so molecular data have become widely accessible, making it possible to use much larger datasets [...]