…2016: https://www.mvtimes.com/2016/06/01/late-night-splash-dark-holds-surprise/ We continue to be thrilled by ways that eDNA allows us to discover the animals in the water around us. For more, see https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2018/01/11/edna-seasonal-fish-abundance-study/ and https://phe.rockefeller.edu/blog/2017/04/12/fishing-for-dna-paper-published/ . …
…Jordan M. Mattheisen, Thomas Huber and Thomas P. Sakmar The paper concludes that sampling saliva on simple paper provides a useful method to study the natural history and epidemiology of…
This article appeared in the magazine The Industrial Physicist, published by the American Institute of Physics, in the February 2000 issue. The essay had appeared in Italian in the special millennial…
…Ocean Manifesto” https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2436864685283/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto SciTech Daily A Clean Ocean by 2030: UN Experts’ “Clean Ocean Manifesto” https://scitechdaily.com/a-clean-ocean-by-2030-un-experts-clean-ocean-manifesto/ Podcast, Germany #4: Die Zukunft der Meere – mit Angelika Brandt https://www.podcast.de/episode/587607889/4-die-zukunft-der-meere-mit-angelika-brandt Earth.com, United…
…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…
The standard animal barcode 648 bp of mitochondrial gene COI seems “just right” for delimiting most animal species. If it were “too short”, then closely-related species would not be resolved….
…paper on barcodes for bats as well as a methodological paper, in Molecular Ecology Notes. For a copy of the paper as well as images and other information, visit https://www.barcodeoflife.org/barcode/batsbirds/…
RealClear Energy posted an article by Iddo Wernick on consequences of nations choosing different energy trajectories in the Indo-Pacific region in the year 2050. See The Indo-Pacific in 2050: Alternative…
Our efforts on environmental genomics begin to bear fruit. A “Barcode of Life” project seems likely to proceed based on the just-completed “Banbury II” conference on DNA & taxonomy at…
…is a sparsely-populated reference library so far. In addition, there were multiple samples from just 5 species, so intraspecific variation is not yet well-studied. As an aside, I note that…