…Systems (BOLD) to a checklist of world birds. barcodingbirds.org visitors can view world and regional progress reports, progress by orders and families, and detailed results for individual species including zoomable…
…(giant squids) a run for their money if they were (down there),” said Don Michel, communications director of the Marine Research division of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization…
…reported on Jesse’s address (p. F5) Oceans speak volumes. Sound spreads widely in the world’s oceans, and the clamour of human activity reaches every cove, says Jesse Ausubel, director of…
…Risk Management at Resources for the Future. He has been on the faculties of Boston University, Virginia Tech, and Johns Hopkins and has held research positions at the World Bank…
…Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). The address, Density: Key to Fake and True News about Energy and Environment, will appear in the AAPG’s Search and Discovery, as contribution #70272 (2017)….
…barcode science and organizational news? A bright answer arrived in today’s email: the first issue of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Bulletin (download pdf or view online flash version)….
IT World and Boingboing run stories about progress of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Encyclopedia of Life: Better than Wikipedia! What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution…
…name a specimen without having to consult an expert or search through taxonomic keys which are generally indecipherable to the non-specialist. As DNA barcode identifications become more common, will this…
…DNA, often called numts (nuclear copies of mtDNA) were first reported by Gellissen et al in 1983. A search of NCBI PubMed for “mitochondrial pseudogenes” shows 282 articles and 12…
In October 2006 Conservation Biology, Rob DeSalle, American Museum of Natural History, comments on April 2006 CB piece on barcoding by Daniel Rubinoff, University of Hawaii (also see earlier Barcode…