…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…
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….
…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…
…to enabling rapid and low-cost mapping of avian diversity including discovery of divergent lineages, which in most cases are indicators of new species, avian DNA barcoding establishes a genetic reference…
…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…
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…
…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…
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 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…
Jesse was interviewed for the documentary “Juice: How Electricity Explains The World,” and you can watch a brief clip here….