…production of forest products into a small area of the world’s forests, leaving the rest for other purposes such as preservation of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of water catchments….
…DNA barcodes) for the world’s macrolepidoptera”, which “would be a wonderful lever for bringing new resources into the field.” A central theme echoed in many of the pieces is the…
We share in the pride of everyone at The Rockefeller University that it ranked #1 in a recent survey of the impact of research of 750 universities around the world….
…the world’s oceans. A large collaboration, the Global Oceanic Sampling (GOS), led by Craig Venter, analyzed microbial DNA collected by filtering seawater at 250 sites along a several thousand kilometer…
…orders also match current understanding, including for example, that flycatchers appear as the basal lineage within passeriformes, and a group of New World passerines called nine-primaried oscines appear together at…
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
An article about the Sloan-sponsored university simulator Virtual-U appeared in the New York Times on 9 April 2000 – Running Things (Into the Ground) An article about professional master’s programs…
…and limit public access to biological knowlege. The DNA barcode initiative, together with the Encyclopedia of Life which includes digitizing the world’s taxonomic literature are creating powerful new ways of…
…interest in birds, it is surprising there is no single authoritative world checklist, especially since most of the differences at the species level reflect minor disagreements about generic assignment, a…
…the fragmented world of taxonomy, and so Padial and de la Riva’s exhortation is an important step. With growing DNA barcode libraries and increasingly inexpensive sequencing technologies, DNA testing will…