iBOL Chair sees risks, also remedies Since becoming chair of the Board of the iBOL corporation in early May, I have thought many hours about iBOL navigating to its goal: a total of 5,000,000 sequences from 500,000 species in its public library by the autumn of 2015. To raise the odds of reaching this scientifically [...]
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Barcode Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 3 – October 2011
CONTENTS Out of the lab and into the field California group is testing the waters for environmental barcoding South African barcoders head for the wetlands iSimangaliso Wetland Park was the destination for the 2011 Toyota Enviro Outreach expedition. Herps come in from the cold Herpetologists now have their own barcoding campaign Beauty on the [...]
South African barcoders head for the wetlands
Toyota Enviro Outreach rides again The second iBOL edition of South Africa’s Toyota Enviro Outreach program – 20 scientists and support staff in a fleet of eight specially equipped vehicles – set out from the Johannesburg International Motor Show October 8 on an 12-day off-road odyssey to collect plant and animal samples for DNA barcoding. [...]
‘Herps’ come in from the cold
New barcoding campaign for amphibians, reptiles Herpetologists now have a DNA barcoding campaign to call their own. Dubbed Cold Code for its focus on cold-blooded amphibians and non-avian reptiles, the new initiative is based at the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) and funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation of [...]
Research roundup
Some recent publications about DNA barcoding Darwin’s butterflies? Spectacular species radiation in the Caribbean In one of the first taxonomic revisions of Neotropical butterflies that uses DNA barcoding, Andrei Sourakov (University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Evgeny Zakharov (University of Guelph, Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding) uncovered a spectacular degree of evolutionary [...]
African partnership initiative launched
Bringing together barcode researchers and users Triangle Barcoding Partnerships for Africa (TBPA) brings together biodiversity research institutes and potential users of DNA barcodes to create barcoding laboratories in Africa. The TBPA initiative’s first task is to identify partner institutions that are committed to becoming active barcoding research centers and support their efforts to identify high-priority [...]
8.7 million species . . .who cares?
New estimate prompts different reactions Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). That’s the new estimate of the total number of species on Earth, based on an “innovative, validated analytical technique” that dramatically narrows the range of previous estimates (5-100 million). The study, published by PLoS Biology, prompted different reactions from [...]
What’s in your teabag?
Students’ barcode probe reveals unlisted ingredients Take another look at that cup of tea. Three New York City high school students used DNA barcoding to discover that several herbal brews and a few brands of tea contain ingredients unlisted on the manufacturers’ package. The teenagers also discovered genetic variation between broad-leaf teas exported from India [...]
Out of the lab and into the field
DNA Barcoding Debuts for Environmental Bioassessment By Eric D. Stein, Karen E. Setty and Peter E. Miller * Bioassessment of marine and freshwater environments is a cornerstone of environmental monitoring throughout the world. The most common approaches infer condition or health of the aquatic habitats based on the structure and composition of the benthic macroinvertebrate [...]
PLoS One launches Mexico City Collection
Proceedings of third international conference The third International Barcode of Life Conference, held in Mexico City in 2009, witnessed an explosion of new applications of DNA barcoding across a rapidly expanding range of fields. The new PLoS ONE collection, Proceedings of the Third International Barcode of Life Conference, Mexico City, includes a selection of articles [...]
