Leishmaniasis is a chronic parasitic infection caused by various Leishmania species, kinetoplast protozoans related to Trypanosoma (the latter includes agents of African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease, suggested as a…
PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler and RU colleague Tom Sakmar publish open access in BMC Infectious Diseases 21, Article #601 (2021) ‘Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built…
Biting insects transmit human and animal diseases, including protozoan (e.g., malaria, leishmania, trypanosoma (sleeping sickness, Chagas disease)), filiarial (e.g., onchocerciasis, Guinea worm), and viral (e.g., yellow fever, West Nile, dengue)…
In January 2010 J Ornithol (open access article) researchers from Norway Natural History Museum, Swedish Museum of Natural History, University of Guelph, and Rockefeller University (myself) survey mitochondrial differences in…
Most DNA barcode research to date analyzes multicellular animals, but why stop there? Unicellular eukaryotes or “protists” probably comprise most of Earth’s biomass and encompass more genetic diversity than all…
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posts a blog Dot Earth: Can people Have Meat and a planet, Too? that refers to our ideas and those of our mentor…
Russian writer Anton Chekhov anticipated 21st century environmental concerns about forests and climate (in an exchange in the first act) Â of his 1899 play Uncle Vanya….
…look forward to seeing how this scientific “newsstand” develops. In June, PLoS ONE received an impact rating of 4.351, placing it in the top 25% percentile of biology journals, making…
Species are the units of biodiversity. Discontinuities in biological variation sort organisms into discrete groups that we recognize as species, and so gathering data on differences among organisms is the…
We admire everything that Vaclav Smil writes, for both his insights and lively style.  This essay, How Green Is Europe?, exemplifies the bracing cold shower one receives from reading…