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…
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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…
National Geographic on eDNA
An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…
The Continental SuperGrid concept
The Continental SuperGrid concept for distribution of hydrogen and electricity that we have aided and abetted is gaining attention. An AP story in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-04-10-super-grid_x.htm A Science Daily news…
Video segment from Juice: How Electricity Explains The World
Jesse was interviewed for the documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World,” and you can watch a brief clip here….
Living in a Material World
A preprint is now available of Living in a Material World, an essay written by PHE researcher Iddo Wernick that will appear in the Winter 2014 issue of Issues in…
Knowing the unknowable
350 years ago Anthony van Leeuwenhoek explored the living world around (and within!) him using tiny, powerful, single lens microscopes. He discovered “tiny animacules” including what we now know as…
Google Impact supports DNA Barcoding
Border inspectors and wildlife officials around the world look for endangered species killed and trafficked in violation of national laws and international treaties. Sometimes the objects are easily identified but…
Barcoding of Life Conference a success!
…and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph…
CBOL and Natural History host International Barcode Conference in London
…of this conference comes three new initiatives: one to count all birds in the world, one to count all fishes in the world (Fish-BOL), and one to count all plant…