…greater. Land Animal and Plant Biodiversity World Map Two recent papers show DNA barcoding aids species identification and discovery in tropical fauna. In January 24, 2006 Proceedings of the National…
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:…
…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…
We post the book chapter by Alan Curry and Jesse H. Ausubel, Biological information for the new blue economy and the emerging role of eDNA, in the comprehensive new book…
…inferences about the evolutionary past. It generally takes years or decades between specimen collection and publication of a new species description, and my impression is that most specimens in museum…
…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…
…People enjoy the news – covered in at least 51 countries and 19 languages. BBC Earth’s rarest minerals catalogued https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35569659 DPA / APA (newswires, Germany, Austria) Weniger als ein Würfel…
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…play an increasing role in the world of art as well. Until recently, physics and chemistry application such as radiocarbon dating and imaging techniques dominated scientific applications to art, allowing…
…a new genus, Rungwecebus, the actual sequence data is not listed among diagnostic characters in the species or genus description. Routine inclusion of DNA barcode sequences could improve the usefulness…