We have updated and reorganized our webpages on DNA, Taxonomy, and the Barcode of Life (https://phe.rockefeller.edu/BarcodeConference/) to keep pace with this rapidly progressing field. Among other exciting developments, the Smithsonian…
Harvard magazine runs a pleasantly Harvard-centric article about the Encyclopedia of Life , crediting alumnus Jesse with raising the funds to launch EOL. Â He recalls doing a few other…
…rare variants in this dataset were less common in newer sequences, consistent with improved sequence quality over time. Rare variants were associated with low quality sequences–those with internal N’s,…
Newly discovered deep sea lobster named for Rockefeller’s Jesse Ausubel – story from The Rockefeller University’s newswire….
…This gave 100% match to Paratrechina longicornis, and on the corresponding Encyclopedia of Life page, I learned the common name is “Crazy ant”, an invasive species found worldwide, plus found…
The full UNEP report on methane hydrates, Frozen Heat: UNEP Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates, Volume 1 & 2 as well as Executive Summary, has been published. PHE alumna…
The Deep Life Community shared its progress over the past decade in the Deep Carbon Observatory at the December 2018 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC. Jesse…
In PLoS ONE 2012 e:43992 Kevin Kerr and I reported that most of what appeared to be rare nucleotide and amino acid variants in avian BARCODEs were in fact sequencing…
…quantification, field design, laboratory protocols) –Adding internal standard to metabarcoding PCRs quantifies eDNA (converts relative sequence reads to absolute eDNA copies) –Current marine fish metabarcoding protocols ready for wider use…
The continental shelf tracking (“POSTâ€) project of the Census of Marine Life has tracked salmon the size of a banana 2500 km from pools in the Snake River in the…