What you can learn from a tiny bit of DNA
…the globe were noted and today about 40% of world’s 6,671 amphibian species are threatened with extinction (e.g. Stuart et al 2004). The major cause appears to global dissemination of…
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Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland
…period while corn acreage merely doubled. Yet the amount of farmland in the world was still rising until recently. The reason is that increased farm productivity has been matched by…
Life in submarine canyons
…of the US Ocean Exploration program on the EV Okeanos Explorer. For brief video highlights (about two minutes each) from 2000 feet below the surface about 100 miles off the…
The History of DNA Barcoding Video
Mark is interviewed by DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on how barcoding went from an idea in 2003 to more than 1 million barcoded specimens in 2011. T…
Video of Wrap-up of Clean Ocean webinar
For a global overview of marine pollution in 90 minutes, watch the lively Wrap-up session of the 17-19 November UN Ocean Decade “Clean Ocean” webinar Jesse co-moderated. Co-moderator begins the…
Standardized mtDNA analysis to help identify exotic wildlife
Many exotic pets are also endangered or threatened species. Global illegal trade in protected wildlife is estimated at $10 billion annually. The essential first step in international wildlife law enforcement…
Video of Some Adventures in Urban Barcoding Keynote Address
Keynote address by Jesse at the Urban Barcode Project and Urban Barcode Research Program Symposium, hosted by the DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory at the New York Academy…
Community Risk Profiles: Background
…therapies for patients with less than six months to live and liver transplants for unrepentant alcoholics received low rankings. Some treatments received low rankings not due to their relative contribution…
Fungal database a Tower of Babel, needs rebuilding
…public resource of GenBank and the other international genetic databases, EMBL and DDBJ. The power of genetic databases as identification tools rests on the quality of sequences and their annotations….
Beginning to build a neotropical bird species index with DNA barcodes
…thereby point to a large body of biological knowledge. There are more bird species in the Neotropics than anywhere else. Over 4,000 of the approximately 10,000 world bird species live…