DNA to help skates

…also locally extirpated, and most specimens with this name represent other species. For newly rediscovered blue and flapper skates, the researchers report 20 diagnostic substitutions in approximately 2600-nucleotide segment spanning…

Names

In Systema Natura 250 (Andrew Polaszek, ed; CRC Press), a new collection of essays on the state of taxonomy, David Schindel and Scott Miller address how to speed up “naming”…

River campus

Shown here are PHE members Jesse, Doris, Mark and Alan during a tour of the new addition to the Rockefeller University campus, the River Campus. Thanks to Alex Kogan, Rockefeller…