Mark Stoeckle’s mentee, Samara Davis, earned the Grand prize in Science at the Genius Olympiad, an international high school project competition about environment issues, with her project on censusing threatened…
Produced by PHE associate and acoustician Perrin Meyer, polartide.org is an interactive meditation on time, oil stocks, and sea levels for the Maldives Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennale. polartide…
The article Why should mitochondria define species? Stoeckle M.Y., Thaler D.S. is grounded in and strongly supports Darwinian evolution, including the understanding all life has evolved from a common biological…
…very low frequency variants found in two or more individuals of a species (labeled “shared” in figure) provided a nice control–these were relatively evenly distributed, consistent with biological origin. Not…
The French newspaper Le Monde on 15 August 2008 featured an excellent article and an interview by Dominique de Saint Pern about the technical and scientific progress of the film…
Last week’s post looked at amino acid variation among avian BARCODEs (11,000 sequences, 2,700 bird species). The findings were that common variants (present in >0.1% of sequences) are few and…
Massachusetts artist Olivia Pattison who paints an animal each day has painted the Dinochelus ausubeli, the deepwater lobster named for the Ausubel family….
In recognition of the Fifth International Barcode of Life Conference opening next week in Kunming, China, we offer Barcoding Life Highlights 2013. This eight page pdf takes a look…
Marine eDNA’s rapid progress and future potential highlighted by science writer Cheryl Lyn Dybas in September 2019 Oceanography, including commentary from Jesse Ausubel and Mark Stoeckle, and drawing on last…
Jesse’s commentary, “A Botanical Macroscope“, about the DNA plant barcode and its implications for the Encyclopedia of Life and related e-Biosphere initiatives, appeared in the 4 August issue of the…