David Thaler joins us more officially
…is now based at the Biozentrum – Center for Molecular Life Sciences in Basel, Switzerland. David now rejoins RU as a guest investigator with PHE, and mutual interests spanning evolution,…
…is now based at the Biozentrum – Center for Molecular Life Sciences in Basel, Switzerland. David now rejoins RU as a guest investigator with PHE, and mutual interests spanning evolution,…
Measuring Ambient Ocean Sound During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An expanded nonmilitary hydrophone network provides new opportunities to understand the variability and trends of ocean sound and the effects of sound…
…cases. COI outperformed a commonly used genetic marker, the plastid Rubisco spacer, in revealing cryptic diversity. As is generally observed, “a good taxonomic foundation coupled with extensive sampling of taxa…
We have posted the paper Resources and Environment in the 21st Century: Seeing Past the Phantoms….
The Census of Marine Life announces discovery of a rare microbial biosphere. Jesse notes that a swallow of seawater might contain 1000 kinds of bacteria….
On September 13, 2016 Jesse delivered a lecture on Marine biodiversity revealed by extracellular DNA in seawater as part of the conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Russia’s Shirshov Institute…
Why DNA barcoding works as well as it does is an unsolved scientific puzzle. It is long observed that mitochondrial DNA differences within animal species are generally much smaller than…
Dutch newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, publishes article by H.L. Wesseling featuring “The Liberation of the Environment: Technological Development and Global Change,” (Budapest version)….
The Italian weekly magazine Oggi published a colorful spread about the Census of Marine Life in its 26 June 2006 edition entitled “ET swims in the abyss.” The opening page…
In early online J Zool Syst Evol Res researchers from Natural History Museum and Imperial College, London, scrutinize “recent advances in DNA taxonomy…that follow the dramatic increase in data generation“….