…studying evolutionary processes based on DNA data. To download zip files containing MatLab code and datasets utilized in this paper, select the following links: PLoS_ThreeGroups_v1_2.zip (updated March 2010) PLoS_Bird_Analysis_v1_2.zip (updated March 2010)…
Our paper, “Why should mitochondria define species?“, is published open access in Human Evolution 2018; 33:1-40. It recently received a lot popular press attention claiming our work supports creationist views….
Mark Stoeckle, together with co-authors Lyubov Soboleva (Hunter College) and Zachary Charlop-Powers (Rockefeller University), update their 2017 paper “Aquatic environmental DNA detects seasonal fish abundance and habitat preference in an…
…this website https://hughsteele-public.sharepoint.com/ John and Jesse Ausubel co-authored the 1993 paper Flat Organizations for Earth Sciences. John’s insights were crucial to the early definition of the Census of Marine Life…
Our “GoFish” paper is published in PLOS ONE (Stoeckle MY, Mishu MD, Charlop-Powers Z. GoFish: a versatile nested PCR strategy for environmental DNA assays for marine vertebrates). Excerpt from the…
…make paper. Fires, saws, and axes have cleared about half of the original forestland, and some forest, though not all, has been replaced. Some analysts warn that within decades, the…
The Return of Nature, a lightly edited version of Jesse Ausubel’s Nature Rebounds SALT talk, has been published in The Breakthrough Journal. A pdf version of the paper with more…
We post “Foresters and DNA“, a version of the forthcoming paper by Ausubel, Wernick, and Waggoner based on Jesse’s Keynote address to the Duke U. Forest Genomics conference in November…
…which Jesse had the thrill of joining for its final week, are recounted in a press release and images. The paper in Science magazine by Boris Worm and Ransom Myers…
We post to BioRXiv, the pre-print server for biology: Why Should Mitochondria Define Species? Mark Y. Stoeckle, David S. Thaler Comments on the paper are most welcome.The study is grounded…