…two of the $15,000 income earners–would have to devote a third of its gross income just for shelter. In practice, the working poor pool their incomes so they can stay…
PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle teamed up with Royal Ontario Museum ornithologist Kevin Kerr on a just published PLoS ONE paper “Frequency matrix approach demonstrates high sequence quality in avian BARCODEs…
Two papers in early online Mol Ecol Notes report large scale COI surveys of tropical bats and North American birds. In the first paper, Clare et al examined 840 specimens…
…workhorses of systematics, Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood. Meanwhile, beginning with the first paper published in 2003, distances displayed in neighbor-joining trees have been the usual heuristic approach for analyzing DNA…
…covering about 100,000 animal species. The paper argues that humans are far from special: humanity’s tiny mt DNA differences are “average” in the animal kingdom. Moreover, as with humans, over…
…paper on biodiversity. The paper attracted more than 1000 news stories around the world in more than 20 languages and 50 countries. Congratulations to Camilo and Company for having made…
…their paper, Quantitative Dynamics of Human Empires. The paper reports that the driving forces of empire, leading to expansion and saturation at 14 days of travel from the capital, can…
…as a means of species discovery (for more, see www.barcoding.si.edu; www.barcodinglife.org). In addition to helping identify what is already known, DNA analysis can reveal what would otherwise remain hidden. In…
…(marine genomic) datasets, derived from the paper Mark co-authored about fish diversity in coastal New Jersey. Here are links to the datasets: GBIF: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/46488f96-b51e-4c06-9a02-8c4c900f7f78 OBIS: https://obis.org/dataset/fe2ed263-2b21-47d7-a79f-f9b911132398 OBIS and GBIF expose slightly different…
In 16 june 2009 BMC Bioinformatics researchers from University of Guelph report on web platform for DNA barcode analysis, www.iBarcode.org. The site works with aligned barcode files in standard .fas…