Next-generation DNA barcode application
…rainforest in Papua New Guinea, an area 1 1/2 times as large as Costa Rica. (Note: alpha diversity is number of species at a given site; beta diversity refers to…
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Why do mitochondria differ among species?
…little study so far on whether mitochondrial differences among species reflect functional adaptation (although see Ruiz-Pesini et al 2004 Science 303:223, Bayona-Balfaluy et al 2004 Mol Biol Evol 22:716). In…
Forests, Farms, and Materials
…long-term history and foreseeable technology developments across disciplines. Data driven, our approach is anchored in statistical analysis of time-series datasets using models of growth and diffusion, particularly Lotka-Volterra dynamical systems….
Brian Appleyard Article
The 11 June 2006 Londay Sunday Times magazine ran a feature article by Brian Appleyard on technological solutions to environmental problems that quotes Jesse several times….
NYC/NJ Aquatic Vertebrate Environmental DNA (eDNA) Project
…New York and New Jersey. We have also applied eDNA to freshwater fish, marine mammals, and terrestrial vertebrates, at diverse sites ranging from Sea of Galilee in Israel to twilight…
Neotropical explorers map avian diversity
…distinct barcode(s). Of the nine species not resolved, six were Sporophila spp (common name “seedeaters”); these comprised a single cluster of shared barcodes. Although morphologically distinct, I wonder if these…
Make a lasting contribution
…differentiation.” The researchers chose 3 pairs of populations, subspecies, and species in 3 orders of birds that live in Alaska or Russia. The study design had two aims, first, do…
Ocean Biodiversity Information System publishes fish eDNA (genomic) data set, based on work by Stoeckle et al
…to live there. Developed as the data portal for the Census of Marine Life program (2000-2010), by 2010 OBIS had several million what/where records for over 120,000 species. OBIS now…
Some Fret Over Exceptions to Barcoding
The springboard for a recent news@nature.com item by Hannah Hickey “Butterflies poke holes in DNA barcodes” is a report by Gompert et al in press in Mol. Ecology on genetic…
Resolving leaves and branches?
…orders also match current understanding, including for example, that flycatchers appear as the basal lineage within passeriformes, and a group of New World passerines called nine-primaried oscines appear together at…