Mapping biodiversity with DNA: sectors analyzed so far
…barcoding was published in February 2003. The results displayed today on BOLD Taxonomy Browser demonstrate amazing progress in a short time, thanks to the inspiration and hard work of many!…
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TreeParser paper published
…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…
Growing DNA barcode database leaps past 50,000 species
…should help drive technological improvements analogous to those spawned by the Human Genome Project which enabled its completion for a fraction of the originally projected cost. As of today, researchers…
10th Anniversary of Census of Marine Life
…Changing Ocean Exploring a Census of Marine Life Today. Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk, a 25-minute retrospective on the CoML. We post a pdf of the slides here. We…
Poisonous fish revealed
…identification was incomplete. It would be of interest to repeat the database searches (as of today GenBank contains 1 L. lunaris COI sequence and BOLD taxonomy browser lists 2), but…
Lizard mitochondria converge on snakes–why?
…across all 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes, but were clustered particularly in COXI and ND1. The authors conclude that there was an ancient adaptive episode in the ancestors of today’s agamid…
Retrospective on the Census of Marine Life
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) hosted a virtual symposium entitled Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today, on January 27, 2021. The Census…
Census of Marine Life goes Experimental and Weird
…for the video, visit https://www.youtube/webby and click “Experimental & Weird”, The Census of Marine Life video is last on the page. Support the Census of Marine Life by voting today….
Nordhaus Nobel
William Nordhaus today earned the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on climate change. Hooray for Bill! Jesse first encountered Bill’s work in the late 1970s, started…
Learning about lichens with DNA
…EOL podcast on lichen–“a tropical rainforest in miniature”). Today about 13,500 species are described (lichens are named for fungal component), representing 18% of the 74,000 known fungi. It is remarkable…