Mapping biodiversity with DNA: sectors analyzed so far
As of 28 january 2008, there are 341,825 barcode records from 35,798 species in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) www.barcodinglife.org . What sectors of biodiversity have been analyzed so…
As of 28 january 2008, there are 341,825 barcode records from 35,798 species in the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) www.barcodinglife.org . What sectors of biodiversity have been analyzed so…
We post the article The Evolution of Transport, which appeared in this months issue of the magazine, The Industrial Physicist….
PHE-sponsored “Sushi-gate†investigation is featured in April 2009 Scripps Oceanographic Institute Magazine. The article, which describes work done by FISHBOL researchers Phil Hastings and Ron Burton, quotes PHE’s Mark Stoeckle…
Michael Ojovan, now at Imperial College (London), and Russian colleagues have published an excellent compact description of self-sinking capsules for disposal of hazardous waste and probing the deep Earth. See…
…a first-pass standard barcode for plants. The authors then analyzed the 5′ matK barcode in a much larger sample of orchids: 1,566 specimens representing 1,084 Mesoamerican species. It is exciting…
We post the paper Death and the Human Environment, which appeared this month in the journal Technology in Society….
The article ‘How to Invest in the Global Forests of the Future’ is a more popular version of a recent publication ‘Storing Carbon or Growing Forests‘ that appeared in the…
What limits mitochondrial variation within species? In January 2008 PLoS Biology researchers from Karolinksa Institute, Sweden, and University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, report on an ingenious mouse model…
We post the rise and fall of sulfur dioxide emissions in the USA, which form an Environmental Kuznets Curve where richer is first dirtier and then richer becomes cleaner, as…
In 24 February 2010 PLoS ONE paper “Structural Analysis of Biodiversity”, PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle and colleagues at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine apply their recently-developed indicator vector technique to…