CBOL and Natural History host International Barcode Conference in London
…of this conference comes three new initiatives: one to count all birds in the world, one to count all fishes in the world (Fish-BOL), and one to count all plant…
…of this conference comes three new initiatives: one to count all birds in the world, one to count all fishes in the world (Fish-BOL), and one to count all plant…
…from nuclear genes? In April 2008 Mol Ecol researchers from University of Minnesota and American Museum of Natural History, New York, analyze utility of mitochondrial as compared to nuclear DNA…
…Turning marketplace detectives, the AMNH team collected 68 sushi samples from 31 establishments in New York and Denver over 6 month period in 2008. Nearly one-third (22; 32%) of samples…
This article was published in the Resources for the Future (Washington, D.C.) newsletter Resources. Posted with permission. The Greek oikos, for house, fathered the siblings economics and ecology. Economics, literally, are…
…Environment: Scientists’ Roles and Opportunities Jesse H. Ausubel In Mitigating International Discord, A. L. de Cerreno and A. Keynan, eds, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (866): 253-258,…
…https://vimeo.com/17662204 The recording was played at the London Grand Finale of the CoML in October 2010. The Steve Miller Band played the song several times during their 2010-2011 world tour….
…suggested these groups have been reproductively isolated for 0.3 to 1.6 MY, similar to calculated divergence times among other closely-related mammals. Analysis of 14 nuclear microsatellites from 381 individuals at…
The paper Trawl and eDNA assessment of marine fish diversity, seasonality, and relative abundance in coastal New Jersey, USA by Mark Stoeckle, Jason Adolf, Zachary Charlop-Powers, Keith Dunton, Gregory Hinks,…
PHE researchers Mark Stoeckle and Cameron Coffran developed a new software, TreeParser, that helps generate Klee diagram “heat maps” of genetic biodiversity (freely available on the PHE website https://phe.rockefeller.edu/barcode/klee.php )….
…EOL podcast on lichen–“a tropical rainforest in miniature”). Today about 13,500 species are described (lichens are named for fungal component), representing 18% of the 74,000 known fungi. It is remarkable…