Everyday DNA
GPS devices for civilian use were first introduced 1982. The TI 4100 from Texas Instrument Company cost $150,000, weighed 50 lbs, and had heavy demand from land surveyors (GPS World,…
GPS devices for civilian use were first introduced 1982. The TI 4100 from Texas Instrument Company cost $150,000, weighed 50 lbs, and had heavy demand from land surveyors (GPS World,…
…left by predators of sheep, bird faeces, and, turning to world of commerce, ancient and modern processed leather goods (Long 2007). I look forward to analyses of the many processed…
…species level may often approach 100%, because closely-related congeneric species are not present. The effort to establish a standardized genetic library of DNA barcodes for world’s plants is moving ahead….
…and then the emergence of humans, led to the natural world as we know it. Filmed over a four-year period in the national parks and animal reserves of Poland, Romania,…
…work on eDNA. Also especially notable are Mapping the World’s Oceans by our frequent collaborator Larry A. Mayer, and Using Noise to Image the Ocean by William A. Kuperman. These…
…Committee of the Census of Marine Life We are thrilled that the International Cosmos Prize, rooted in greenery, honors the blue world. Humanity every day has opportunities to see the…
Discover Magazine named the Census of Marine Life one of “The Six Most Important Experiments in the World” in its December 2007 issue. We are proud to have helped create…
Marine zooplankton comprise an enormous mass of diverse organisms distributed throughout the world’s oceans from deep waters to surface. Zooplankton include representatives of at least dozen phyla, some of which…
…absurd when applied to the large number of animal species that show low intraspecific variation. For example 97% of the 263 world cowrie species show constrained intraspecific variation (Meyer and…
The Neotropics, comprising southern Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America, is home to over 4,000 bird species, representing over 40% of world birds. In this post, Pablo Tubaro, Museo…