Paul Gaffney article on Ocean Observations
…work on eDNA. Also especially notable are Mapping the World’s Oceans by our frequent collaborator Larry A. Mayer, and Using Noise to Image the Ocean by William A. Kuperman. These…
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International Cosmos Prize Statement of Acceptance by Census of Marine Life
…Committee of the Census of Marine Life We are thrilled that the International Cosmos Prize, rooted in greenery, honors the blue world. Humanity every day has opportunities to see the…
Voucher and collection information in GenBank records
…tissue collection in the world with about 40,000 specimens; searching “LSU AND aves[organism] AND voucher” returned only 1,148 records, which seems likely to underrepresent the museum’s contribution. Results for some…
Discovery Magazine CoML
Discover Magazine named the Census of Marine Life one of “The Six Most Important Experiments in the World” in its December 2007 issue. We are proud to have helped create…
Counting zooplankton diversity with DNA
Marine zooplankton comprise an enormous mass of diverse organisms distributed throughout the world’s oceans from deep waters to surface. Zooplankton include representatives of at least dozen phyla, some of which…
What needs explanation is the absence of variation
…absurd when applied to the large number of animal species that show low intraspecific variation. For example 97% of the 263 world cowrie species show constrained intraspecific variation (Meyer and…
Neotropical birds: Argentine researchers speed past halfway point
The Neotropics, comprising southern Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America, is home to over 4,000 bird species, representing over 40% of world birds. In this post, Pablo Tubaro, Museo…
Identifying ocean’s racehorses with DNA
…occur in 2-3% of Atlantic bluefin, for example (Viñas and Tudela 2009 PLoS ONE). In this study, researchers from Universitat de Girona, Spain and World Wildlife Fund describe a DNA-based…
Finding out what lies beneath
What lives in soil? In August 2009 Pesq Agropec Bras (open access) an international cohort of 10 researchers from Canada, France, US, Taiwan, and Russia examine prospects for speeding assessment…
For accurate census, birds await their barcodes
…status. Of the species examined so far (I estimate about 1/3 of the 10,000 world birds), most demonstrate a similar patterning of limited mtDNA differences within species and relatively large…