“Why every protist needs a barcode”
In February 2007 Microbiology Today, scientists report on the Barcoding Protists Workshop held in Portland, Maine in November 2006, which was attended by 40 protist experts from 12 countries (Australia,…
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Fish abundance survey by eDNA published
…and Stacy VanMorter appears today open access in the Journal of Marine Science. A press release summarizes the findings: “Study Proves Bits of DNA in Seawater Correlate to the Weight…
Richard Lounsbery Foundation efforts in science & diplomacy
An article in the February 2010 issue of Physics Today highlights the recent Richard Lounsbery Foundation efforts in science & diplomacy whose underlying logic Jesse articulated in 2001 with Alex…
Mapping biodiversity with DNA: sectors analyzed so far
…barcoding was published in February 2003. The results displayed today on BOLD Taxonomy Browser demonstrate amazing progress in a short time, thanks to the inspiration and hard work of many!…
TreeParser paper published
…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…
Growing DNA barcode database leaps past 50,000 species
…should help drive technological improvements analogous to those spawned by the Human Genome Project which enabled its completion for a fraction of the originally projected cost. As of today, researchers…
10th Anniversary of Census of Marine Life
…Changing Ocean Exploring a Census of Marine Life Today. Jesse Ausubel gave the opening talk, a 25-minute retrospective on the CoML. We post a pdf of the slides here. We…
Poisonous fish revealed
…identification was incomplete. It would be of interest to repeat the database searches (as of today GenBank contains 1 L. lunaris COI sequence and BOLD taxonomy browser lists 2), but…
Lizard mitochondria converge on snakes–why?
…across all 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes, but were clustered particularly in COXI and ND1. The authors conclude that there was an ancient adaptive episode in the ancestors of today’s agamid…
Retrospective on the Census of Marine Life
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) hosted a virtual symposium entitled Observing Life in a Changing Ocean: Exploring a ‘Census of Marine Life’ Today, on January 27, 2021. The Census…