…species-rich group of early terrestrial colonizers such as mosses, which live in some of the coldest and dryest environments as well as in the tropics, and provide habitats for a…
…thereby point to a large body of biological knowledge. There are more bird species in the Neotropics than anywhere else. Over 4,000 of the approximately 10,000 world bird species live…
…of tentacles. The individual zooids live in colonies forming fans, bushes, and sheets. “Bryozoa”, from Ernst Haeckel‘s Kunstformen der Natur, 1904 Dennis P. Gordon, distinguished taxonomist at New Zealand’s…
On January 15, WNYC’s Mike Pesca interviewed Jesse and Trinity students Brenda Tan and Matt Cost about their DNAHouse. Their lively, live interview can be downloaded as a podcast from…
Ira Flatow interviewed Jesse for a live radio segment (mp3) on NPR Science Friday 17 November 2006 about the PNAS paper by Kauppi et al. on Returning Forests….
…how organisms live and what they do. Thus it is exciting that standardized COI DNA barcodes are being incorporated into species descriptions as this will help democratize access to species…
…For birds this is usually simple as a single breast feather plucked from a live bird and stored dry at room temperature generally contains sufficient DNA for barcode analysis. Of…
…are popular pets as they are long-lived [15-25 years], brightly-colored, and tend to be docile…leading to over-harvesting from the wild.” Petersen and colleagues developed a method for recovering DNA from…
…of the factors involved in converting animal feed into animal live weight and edible meat, see Smil, Vaclav, 2013, Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory, Wiley-Blackwell….
…where these great beds occur, nothing else can live…I doubt whether any case is on record, of an invasion on so grand a scale of one plant over the aborigines.”…