Barcoding Nemo
How does one collect tropical reef fish without leaving North America? In July 2009 PLos ONE researchers from University of Guelph report on genetic diversity in SE Asian tropical reef…
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Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert in Polish
Our 2002 paper Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert is now available in Polish, Maglevs i wizji Å›w Huberta lub Wielki Restoration of Nature: Dlaczego i jak, thanks to…
Goldilocks finds mtDNA COI barcode length “just right” for distinguishing most animal species, asks why
…distinguished by short mtDNA sequences, then recognizing the sets of mtDNA sequences that make up species, ie species delimitation, should at least sometimes be simple. Using the neighbor joining tree…
Jews in Time and Space
As part of our ongoing interest in diffusion of social phenomena, PHE researcher Iddo Wernick has published a paper, Jews in Time and Space, using the writing of books to…
Book Review, A Question Power by Robert Bryce
PHE Researcher Iddo Wernick published a review of the recently released book A Question of Power: Why Electricity Will Remain the Essential Ingredient for Human Flourishing by Robert Bryce….
Tracing invaders with DNA
…(ie “leaf mining), causing extensive mottling and leaf loss. C. ohridella is an “invasive pest” in Europe and the subject of an international symposium in Prague in 2004 aimed at…
Retrospective on the Census of Marine Life
…of Marine Life was an international program of discovery of life in the ocean, from microbes to whales and from coral reefs to abyssal plains. The Census ran from 2000-2010…
DNA data to help save bushmeat animals
Harvesting wild animals for sale as food is a large, mostly illegal business that threatens wild animal populations and puts humans at risk for exotic infections, witness the SARS outbreak…
Quandaries of Forest Area
What’s happened to the forests of the former Roman Empire? This and other mysteries are probed in Quandaries of Forest Area, Volume, Biomass, and Carbon Explored with the Forest Identity,…
Mark Stoeckle on marine eDNA in Popular Science
Scientists are tracking down deep sea creatures with free-floating DNA Bits of genetic code in seawater can help scientists study fish that we rarely see. article in Popular Science by…