Everyday DNA
GPS devices for civilian use were first introduced 1982. The TI 4100 from Texas Instrument Company cost $150,000, weighed 50 lbs, and had heavy demand from land surveyors (GPS World,…
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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…
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…
1-hour video about Ocean Decade
…Troublé, Director-General, Tara Foundation Mr. David Eades, Chief Presenter, BBC TV News, Moderator 1 Ms. Taylor Goelz, Program Manager, Shipping Decarbonization Initiative, Aspen Institute | Member, Ocean Decade Early Career…
One biodiversity database to the next
…of Life (EOL), Catalog of Life, World Register of Marine Species (WorMS), and Google images, among others. Having all that, inspired by Matt Damon’s character in The Bourne Ultimatum, we…
St. Andrews
…His work has spanned energy and materials, forests and farms, marine life, human population, and climate as well as engineering, earth, life, and social sciences, says the Laureation Address. https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/laureation-address-mr-jesse-huntley-ausubel/…
Learning how to apply DNA barcoding to species discovery
In 7 June 2006 Systematics and Biodiversity Andrew Brower examines application of DNA barcodes to identifying and defining new species. His Perspective piece “Problems with DNA barcodes for species delimitation:…
Undiscovered species lurking in museum drawers
…revealed these 4 specimens, and a fifth stranded in 1997, to be a new species, designated Perrin’s beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini (Dalebout et al 2002 Marine Mammal Sci 18:577). The…
Naming names faster
…necessary first step in understanding the diversity of life. Here DNA has singular value–all organisms have DNA and some genetic loci are widely-shared, enabling direct comparisons across the diversity of…
Don’t barcode alone
…Plymouth Marine Laboratory, England, report on new primers for amplifying 18S rRNA as a means of barcoding marine nematodes from environmental samples. As background, nematodes are an enormous phylum of…