…of time by utilizing the Fisher-Pry transform, as shown in the inset of Figure 3, with the circles designating (ti, y1i) and the squares designating (ti, y2i). When the second…
Fred Pearce, BioMedNet News, www.bmn.com Amsterdam — Planet Earth is on the verge of a “great restoration” of nature – or it will be, provided humanity takes the right tack…
…a first step in flagging divergent lineages that may represent new species. Here there is something of a roadblock, in that defining new species is a human judgement, sort of…
Front: Perrin Meyer; rear, from left to right: Jason Yung, Iddo Wernick, Doris Manville, Jesse Ausubel…
Biting insects transmit human and animal diseases, including protozoan (e.g., malaria, leishmania, trypanosoma (sleeping sickness, Chagas disease)), filiarial (e.g., onchocerciasis, Guinea worm), and viral (e.g., yellow fever, West Nile, dengue)…
…= 3.3 x 109 bp) are equivalent to the Human Genome Project (human genome = 3.4 x 109 bp). However, whereas HGP involved sequencing DNA samples from a few individuals,…
…The ever-widening menagerie is a paradox when an expanding human population, pollution and climate change threaten what United Nations’ studies say is the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs…
…series of grants to explore the potential for airborne DNA studies. The largest grant went to the Venter Institute, which pioneered the techniques: After Mapping the Human Genome, Analyzing the…
…genes) strongly constrains molecular evolution. Here Kevin Kerr and I re-analyze their large COI dataset [19,000 sequences (8,300 human); 4,700 species], generously provided by senior author Fyodor Kondrashov. Our aim…