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Published by the Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
…available to the project, we formed a Steering Group including members experienced in public health and environment, government, community organization, and information technologies and services (Appendix A). Prior to the…
PHE’s geneticist and artist, Mark Stoeckle, has prepared a beautiful stamp for the All Birds Barcoding Initiative, available for viewing at Zazzle….
…species? Nyari analyzed 38 individuals representing 10 of the 13 subspecies, plus 3 congeneric individuals of S. virescens or S. major. 8 of the 41 specimens were from University of…
…Terry Collins, provides an excellent summary of the DCO program. The baseline is the landmark, freely available (open access) volume Carbon in Earth and its 20 individual chapters edited by…
…For another cautionary tale of repeated misidentification of a widely studied organism, see Siddall and colleagues’ entertaining June 2007 Proc R Soc paper scrutinizing commercially available medicinal leeches sold as…
…including DNA barcoding, are creating vast amounts of data that outpace the ability of traditional species descriptions to keep up. Making the sequence and specimen data available through public databases…
…A. gambiae s.s. and 68 were sister species A. arabiensis). According to authors, 18s rRNA was analyzed rather than COI because “more sequences are available [for 18s than for COI]…
…not have any meaningful use for the general public and even when a portable barcoder becomes available it will not lead to any increase in the biological literacy of the…
…suggest opportunities for scientific progress and grant support. They include human and animal disease vectors, agricultural pests, threatened and endangered species, and notable marine groups. Powerpoint of slides available here….
…identifying birds from bits of tissue and blood and making birdstrike identifications available to those without access to Smithsonian’s experts or vast collections. In addition to helping airlines, birdstrike ID…