…species from other regions of the world. A reference library of DNA barcodes will help regulatory agencies enforce fish quotas and may enable new forms of certification that will be…
This article was published in the Resources for the Future (Washington, D.C.) newsletter Resources. Posted with permission. The Greek oikos, for house, fathered the siblings economics and ecology. Economics, literally, are…
…more on how students are helping build the genetic database of global species diversity, see Sacramento Bee news story and CMB web page. Barcode of Life Connect tops…
As of October 11, 2008 researchers have deposited 14,594 DNA barcodes in BOLD representing 2,586 avian species, 26% of world’s 9,933 birds. You can browse taxonomic coverage to date at…
…and colleagues (same institutions as above) demonstrated that Common Opposum (Didelphis marsupialis) and Virginia Opposum (D. virginiana), which are sympatric (live in the same area) in Mexico, are readily distinguished…
…and drudgery. Carrying out identifications for colleagues at home and round the world is time consuming and uncompensated. The use of barcoding would free up people to do their own…
…Rockefeller University itself. Here are notices in the 2 September New York Times from Rod’s family and from The Rockefeller University. We will miss Rod greatly. Jesse offers a Remembrance….
…P. Little, The New York Botanical Garden Grace Young, Catherine Gamble, and Rohan Kirpekar inspect tea labels. The dried and sometimes cooked or fermented bits of plants used to make…
…small industry of birding guides and optics, and was a driving force in the much larger social transformation in awareness of the natural world and human impact. I see the…
…world enter the marketplace, often as filets or steaks lacking distinguishing external features. In October 2011, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally adopted DNA barcoding for seafood identification, the…