…history. Leading up to the 500th anniversary of his death in 2019, an international team –– including anthropologists, artists, art historians, forensic experts, genealogists, microbiologists, physicians, and population geneticists ––…
In 1998, as part of biodiversity survey to assess the health of New York City’s Central Park, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History collected leaf litter samples. After…
…created from multiple nuclear and mitochondrial genes, multiple morphologic characters, and exhaustive computerized analysis. Shown at right, a neighbor-joining analysis of COI barcodes of 264 species of North American birds…
…from nuclear genes? In April 2008 Mol Ecol researchers from University of Minnesota and American Museum of Natural History, New York, analyze utility of mitochondrial as compared to nuclear DNA…
…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…
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Jesse Ausubel helped open the excellent 3-hour September 15th 2020 on-line symposium on “US-Russia Scientific Cooperation” organized as part of a series honoring the memory of Victor Rabinowitch, who had a…
A flock of 22 scientists converged on National University of Singapore on March 8-9, 2007 for a 2-day Indomalayan Organizational Meeting for All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI), including representatives from…