Fungal database a Tower of Babel, needs rebuilding
…by Seifert et al in 6 March 2007 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA shows COI provides species-level resolution similar to that for ITS, amplification was generally straightforward, and introns in…
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Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities
On the 25th anniversary of publication, we post Jesse Ausubel’s 1992 essay “Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities,” which accurately foresaw saturation of domestic markets leading to aggressive globalization of USA…
Next-generation DNA barcode application
…combined with high-throughput sequencing can be a macroscope for studying large-scale patterns in biodiversity. In March 2, 2010 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA researchers from University of Minnesota, National Museum…
Budget Hero
The Alfred P. Sloan and Richard Lounsbery foundations have supported the creation of an interactive game to reduce the USA federal government budget deficit. The game has been played more…
Annual meeting of Quiet Ocean strategy group
The USA Strategy Group for the International Quiet Ocean Experiment held its 4th annual meeting 28-30 August at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where Jesse…
Worried taxonomists discover quality control
In 9 September 2008 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA researchers from Brigham Young University and University of South Carolina report that nuclear pseudogenes, if not excluded from analysis, can confuse…
IE Reflections posted
We notice that the 1992 paper “Industrial Ecology: Reflections on a Colloquium” (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA) has been published online: https://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/89/3/879 We also have a copy on our server:…
mtDNA recovery from old bones hints at DNA durability, ubiquity
…and from a 22,000 year-old skull of Arcdotus simus (American giant short-faced bear) from Eldorado Creek, Canada. In 11 november 2008 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 14 researchers led by…
DNA barcoding re-tested in Madagascar butterflies
…is still in midst of exams! In Nov 2008 Mol Phylogenet Evol, in “a test of the DNA barcoding approach,” researchers from University of New Orleans, USA; University of Antioquia,…
Making Nature Useless
…Nature Useless? Global Resource Trends, Innovation, and Implications for Conservation. Iddo presented work on century-long trends in USA resource use, Making Nature Useless: Relative Dematerialization & Absolute Peaks. We also…