We post the papers: Five

We post the papers: Five Worthy Ways To Spend Large Amounts of Money for Research on Environment and Resources Jesse H. Ausubel The Bridge 29(3):4-16, Fall 1999. Dis The Threat…

Modern India

A pair of articles from the same day’s newspaper about hospitality for elephants and landing an Indian on the moon show the beautiful span of contemporary India, which Jesse enjoyed…

DNA Barcodes book

Jesse drafted a foreword, The Beep of the Barcode of Life, for the forthcoming book about DNA barcodes of John Kress and David Erickson. The final version will differ a…

Peak Farmland and Potatoes

We post Peak Farmland and Potatoes, Jesse Ausubel’s Plenary address to the 2014 Potato Business Summit of the United Potato Growers of America, San Antonio, 8 January 2014….

European Barcode Conference

With about 130 other experts from 28 countries, Mark Stoeckle and Jesse Ausubel attended the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, and…

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

Why are there species? The usual answer is sex: reproductive isolation maintains differences between species and reproductive mixing maintains similarity within species. According to recent work with bdelloid (the “b”…