New RU Barcode of Life home page
Just posted, a freshly minted home page for Barcode of Life activities at Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, with expanded links to partners and downloadable pdfs and…
Just posted, a freshly minted home page for Barcode of Life activities at Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, with expanded links to partners and downloadable pdfs and…
…short DNA sequence distinguishing species will rest on reasoning, testing, and agreement, not just an appealing analogy. Reasoning will select a uniform locality on genomes that varies enough but not…
We just came across this 9 Dec 2019 beautifully illustrated review of the work of the Deep Carbon Observatory, especially its work on the deep biosphere, a subject in which…
Just as new telescopes reveal previously hidden details of the universe, genetic surveys regularly reveal previously hidden (aka cryptic) species. Of course these species are cryptic only in the sense…
…me that of all the mathematical tools of phylogeography, population genetics and phylogenetic reconstruction, none are designed to diagnose species. Just as a node in a ML tree may have…
…were several remarkable features. The tree was constructed from just 13 genes, each of which was sequenced for a subset of the total (750 to ~20,000 taxa), plus 604 morphologic…
A splendid book emerging from the Census of Marine Life has just been published, The Biology of Squat Lobsters, GCB Poore, ST Ahyong, and J Taylor (eds.), CRC, Boca Raton,…
…variously lumped together under just two marketplace names, the aforementioned “European common skate (D. batis)” and “longnose skate (D. oxyrinchus);” according to their analysis the latter species, formerly common, is…
Cambridge (UK) historian of science Simon Mitton has just published the excellent book From Crust to Core (A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science). Jesse Ausubel authored the Foreword, which explains…
…that DNA barcode detection of food fraud (not just fish) was front-page news in Washington Post in March 2010 and the potential educational market is also large. I look forward…