Plants challenge DNA barcoding. It has been difficult to identify candidate barcode regions that amplify readily and also distinguish among closely-related species. In 7 February 2008 PNAS (open access) researchers…
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…
Our paper establishing DNA barcodes for almost all (94%) of North American birds appears, together with a paper on barcodes for bats as well as a methodological paper, in Molecular…
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…
Jesse Ausubel gave a talk on “eDNA: Prospects and Challenges” at NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Sciences Center on 18 October 2019. To view the talk visit here for a webinar link….
Just as DNA analysis regularly overturns seemingly solid eyewitness identifications in crime investigations, routine DNA analysis can also help biologists avoid blunders. In 28 August 2007 Mol Ecol, researchers from…
We post the paper How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?, which just appeared in the journal Population and Development Review. We also post the paper…
In 12 July 2007 Zootaxa, Benjamin Victor, Ocean Science Foundation and Nova Southeastern University, describes a new species of goby Coryphopterus kuna from the western Caribbean. Although species descriptions often…