Passing of Dr. Robert M. White
Dr. Robert M. White, for whom Jesse Ausubel worked at the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering during 1977-1979 and 1983-1988 passed away at age 92. To…
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Passing of Paul Waggoner
…217–238, 2012 Rautiainen, IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel, PE Kauppi. A National and International Analysis of Changing Forest Density . PLoS ONE 6 (5): 2011 JH Ausubel, DT Crist,…
Tea Barcode published
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…
Embedding standardized DNA analysis in taxonomic practice
…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…
Why do mitochondria differ among species?
…little study so far on whether mitochondrial differences among species reflect functional adaptation (although see Ruiz-Pesini et al 2004 Science 303:223, Bayona-Balfaluy et al 2004 Mol Biol Evol 22:716). In…
Technology and Human Environment
The passage of time has connected the invention of the wheel with more than ten million miles of paved roads around the world today, and the capture of fire with…
DNA barcoding maps unknowns in Iraq
…J N Am Benthol Soc, researchers from U.S. National Museum of Natural History, The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, and University of Guelph report on DNA barcoding to facilitate biomonitoring in…
New genus and species of Bryozoan named for Jesse Ausubel
…recent (plus 15 fossil). The Jessethoa page in the World Registry of Marine Species The Jessethoa ausubeli page in the World Registry of Marine Species On behalf of the entire…
Knowing the unknowable
350 years ago Anthony van Leeuwenhoek explored the living world around (and within!) him using tiny, powerful, single lens microscopes. He discovered “tiny animacules” including what we now know as…
DNA barcoding a hardy urban denizen
…ineradicable urban denizen, we are starting a National Cockroach Project. A quick summary so far: What High school students and other citizen scientists collecting and helping analyze American cockroaches using…