Barcode stats reveal progress, challenges, opportunities
As Dirk Steinke’s recent blog post demonstrated, since the seminal 2003 Proc Royal Soc London B Biol Sci paper by Hebert, Cywinska, Ball, and DeWaard, barcoders around the world have…
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Mitochondrial DNA’s unique power
…which leads to more rapid sorting of differences among genetically isolated populations. Analysis of real-world data in 45 studies of differences among and within avian species confirms this expectation, ie…
Helping reveal relationships among species
…least a preliminary look at genetic relationships for large numbers of species (so far 2,393 avian species (24% of world birds) have barcode records in BOLD). This could be exciting!…
Jesse Ausubel named Fellow of American Geographical Society
…Ausubel on the 20thof November during the AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050: Exploring our Future in an Urbanized World, to be held at Columbia University. Here is the press release….
Wired, Scientific American highlight DNA-based future of species identification
…are also clever traps to catch all the people in the world whose curiosity impels them toward data as if toward light.” An article in October 2008 Scientific American, with…
13th Quiet Ocean Newsletter
The 13th Newsletter of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, now online, include updates on the Global Library of Underwater Sounds (GLUBS) and the World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day….
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,…
mtDNA recovery from old bones hints at DNA durability, ubiquity
…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…
Plant specialists work towards standardization
…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….
The Seasons 2-minute teaser
…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,…