Some Fret Over Exceptions to Barcoding
The springboard for a recent news@nature.com item by Hannah Hickey “Butterflies poke holes in DNA barcodes” is a report by Gompert et al in press in Mol. Ecology on genetic…
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Video segment from Juice: How Electricity Explains The World
Jesse was interviewed for the documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World,” and you can watch a brief clip here….
Living in a Material World
A preprint is now available of Living in a Material World, an essay written by PHE researcher Iddo Wernick that will appear in the Winter 2014 issue of Issues in…
DNA barcoding identifies mystery hummingbird, points toward wide utility in conservation assessments
…photographs, it was not possible to identify the exact species, in this case whether this was an Allen’s (S. sasin) or Rufous (S. rufus), species native to the western U.S….
DNAHouse
On January 15, WNYC’s Mike Pesca interviewed Jesse and Trinity students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost about their DNAHouse. Their lively, live interview can be downloaded as a podcast from…
Forests Podcast
Ira Flatow interviewed Jesse for a live radio segment (mp3) on NPR Science Friday 17 November 2006 about the PNAS paper by Kauppi et al. on Returning Forests….
Helping the public by incorporating DNA barcodes into species descriptions
…how organisms live and what they do. Thus it is exciting that standardized COI DNA barcodes are being incorporated into species descriptions as this will help democratize access to species…
Bird in hand may need DNA reference library
…For birds this is usually simple as a single breast feather plucked from a live bird and stored dry at room temperature generally contains sufficient DNA for barcode analysis. Of…
Standardized mtDNA analysis to help identify exotic wildlife
…are popular pets as they are long-lived [15-25 years], brightly-colored, and tend to be docile…leading to over-harvesting from the wild.” Petersen and colleagues developed a method for recovering DNA from…
Shrinking footprint of meat in US
…of the factors involved in converting animal feed into animal live weight and edible meat, see Smil, Vaclav, 2013, Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory, Wiley-Blackwell….