Deep Carbon Observatory

The new international Deep Carbon Observatory https://dco.ciw.edu/ led by Robert Hazen and Russ Hemley has launched its website. Â Jesse and Veselin Kostov have helped initiate the DCO and look…

Quiet Ocean Experiment

“An International Quiet Ocean Experiment,” co-authored by Jesse and 22 colleagues led by Ian Boyd and George Frisk, appears in the June 2011 issue of Oceanography magazine. The paper and

We have newly posted on-line

We have newly posted on-line an earlier paper for which we continue to receive reprint requests: “Verification of International Environmental Agreements .”…

100 million years without sex: COI clustering in bdelloid rotifers challenges theories of how species are formed and maintained

…Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew analyze morphometric and molecular data of a comprehensive international sampling of Rotaria sp. bdelloid rotifers. All 9 morphologically defined taxonomic species form monophyletic clades in genetic…

Evidence

…of the barcoding gene COI for use in forensic genetic species identification” (Forensic Sci International 173:1, 2007). The authors conclude “this study demonstrates that the cytochrome c oxidase I gene…