CoML in Cambridge
…Life. The 17MB pdf posted here includes all the slides but not the animations or videos. Thanks to the Class of 1973 for a wonderful opportunity to share the Census!…
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Tracking disease vectors with DNA
…BOLD matches and knowledge of local fauna to “deduce that these species could be the Iberian hare Lepus granatensis, the red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa and the Egyptian mongoose Herpestes ichneumon.”…
Neotropical birds: Argentine researchers speed past halfway point
The Neotropics, comprising southern Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America, is home to over 4,000 bird species, representing over 40% of world birds. In this post, Pablo Tubaro, Museo…
Short videos of Galatee’s The Seasons
…Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser: https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs And a 1 minute 42 second teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLrFO06yM8 And one that shows some of the film’s techniques: https://www.facebook.com/LesSaisons.lefilm/videos/1132390206780130/…
Encyclopedia of Life continues rapid expansion
A 4 January 2012 press release describes the continuing rapid expansion of the Encyclopedia of Life. It is hard to believe that the EOL went public only in February 2008.…
Identifying ocean’s racehorses with DNA
Bluefin tuna are enormous (up to 15 ft/4.5 m, 680 kg/1500 lbs), high-speed (up to 54 km/h, as fast as racehorses) creatures that roam across oceans and return to ancestral…
Non-invasive DNA recovery leaves tiny specimens intact
Reference databases of DNA sequences used for species identification, ie DNA barcode libraries, are most powerful when the morphologic specimens are vouchered in a museum collection. This way, when there…
Census of Marine Life US Postal Stamps
available from Zazzle.com stamp designs by Mark Stoeckle…
DNA to help skates
In current Aquatic Conserv Marine Freshwater Ecosys, researchers from Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France, report on 80 years of taxonomic confusion that has contributed to near extinction for a once…
eDNA degradation; 2nd National Workshop
PHE’s guest investigator David Thaler offers some stimulating ideas in a memo about ways of understanding and learning from degradation of aquatic eDNA. The title: How long has each particular…