…the critics did not understand the difficulties of working with the remaining unpublished documents that are mostly a collection of fragile fragments of parchment.” New York Times September 5, 1991…
…of the widespread destruction of fish populations. Based on a very few, very general assumptions, Ryther (1969) calculated the total annual world fish production. He took estimates of primary production…
…barcode science and organizational news? A bright answer arrived in today’s email: the first issue of the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) Bulletin (download pdf or view online flash version)….
A January 11 column in the Los Angeles Times favors the Census of Marine Life over the mission to Mars. So do we! Read our copy of the column (PDF)….
…into modern taxonomic practice. In their view, “integrative taxonomists should use and produce DNA barcodes.” Of course, this is already happening in many areas, but new practices diffuse slowly through…
…of toxic waste. The really bad news is that most of the planet’s 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the…
…pdf for download). According to Chapman’s analysis, there are 1.9 million published species in the world. Approximately 18,000 new species are described each year, 75% of which are invertebrates, 11%…
…Blog: where we write about and illustrate the latest news about DNA barcoding Partners Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) – Barcode of Life Database (BOLD) – All Birds Barcoding Initiative (ABBI) – All Leps…
…of the Encylopedia of Life at Rockefeller University in New York City. “I’m not sure about the volume but … they wouldn’t all want the same conditions in their cabins,”…
…genes, there are 2,629 COI sequences from 1,071 species (2.6% world) and 2,268 12S/16S sequences from 1,041 species (2.6% world). Thus it appears that only about 1/40th of world’s spiders…