Some Fret Over Exceptions to Barcoding
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…
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…
The New York Times reported 8 December that USA corn yields have risen 31% since 1995. Despite the drought in Illinois in the summer of 2005, that State produced a…
Approximately 8,000 – 15,000 species of bivalves (clams, mussels, scallops, oysters, and relatives) are known. According to BOLD Taxonomy Browser www.barcodinglife.org, 620 bivalve species have COI barcode records so far,…
Jesse’s niece, Ramona Ausubel, has published a novel, The Last Animal, about a woolly mammoth starting a modern life. A companion essay, Science and Fiction Are Experiments That Ask the…