DNA helps sort out really big animals, crowding Ark
…how finely divided animal biodiversity is. Wilson and Reeder’s Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition lists 5,419 species, so this appears to be an achievable goal for our mammalian…
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Helping reveal relationships among species
…relationships among species? Here I look at one example from birds, comparing differences among COI barcodes to a recently revised phylogeny of terns (subfamily Sternini). According to American Ornithologists’ Union…
mtDNA recovery from old bones hints at DNA durability, ubiquity
In another seeming step towards Jurassic Park, two groups of researchers recovered full-length mitochondrial DNA sequences from 22,000 to 44,000 year-old bones of extinct European and North American bears. Full-length…
Cockroach
PHE’s Mark Stoeckle co-authored the first large-scale study of an important urban wildlife denizen, the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana). This work demonstrates that genetically divergent lineages of American cockroach, likely…
A National and International Analysis of Changing Forest Density [external link]
A Rautiainen, IK Wernick, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel, PE Kauppi. PLoS ONE
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Web initiative aims to help clear name confusion
…taxonomic information science is uBio (Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer) www.ubio.org, “an initiative within the science library community to join international efforts to create and utilize a comprehensive and collaborative…
Mark Stoeckle mitochondria paper in Human Evolution
…world are no greater than differences between pigeons https://uk.news.yahoo.com/genetic-differences-between-people-across-184451249.html?guccounter=2 Europa Press, newswire, Spain La diferencia genética entre humanos, en el promedio de las especies https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/laboratorio/noticia-diferencia-genetica-humanos-promedio-especies-20180521172546.html Agencia EFE, Spain Demostrado, no…
Taxonomy without borders
341 researchers from 44 countries gathered for the Second International Barcode of Life Conference, held at Academia Sinica, Tapei, Taiwan on 17-21 September 2007 (program, participants, and abstracts at www.dnabarcodes2007.org)….
Lizard mitochondria converge on snakes–why?
In 2 june 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA researchers from 5 American universities report on convergent molecular evolution among agamid lizards and snakes. In constructing a nuclear and mitochondrial…
Scientific American SuperGrid
The Continental Supergrid is featured in the July 2006 issue of Scientific American: ENERGY A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy By Paul M. Grant, Chauncey Starr and Thomas J….