Tea time for DNA

…including weeds like annual bluegrass (Poa annua) and white goosefoot (Chenopodium album) and herbal plants like chamomile (Matricaria recutita). Matching DNA ingredients to listed ingredients was sometimes challenging–we observe that…

Barcoding Birds Paper

Our paper “Identification of Birds Through DNA Barcodes” is published in PLoS Biology and is featured by Science and Nature online. Links can be found on our Barcode of Life…

Burg visit

…on a number of projects including the development of online software for statistical analysis of time series data as well as studies applying biological models to social and technical phenomena….

Leo and Deep Carbon

…Da Vinci DNA Project in Vienna’s Kurier; and –the Deep Life work of the Deep Carbon Observatory in hard copy of the New York Times (posted 19 Dec online).  …

Birds paper published in PLoS Biology

…the effectiveness of DNA barcodes in distinguishing North American birds. In addition, several probable new species were found, suggesting that a global survey of birds utilizing museum specimens could rapidly…