DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 2 I spent Monday listening to ichthyologists and fisheries biologists discuss their efforts to barcode the planet?s fish species (an initiative called the Fish barcode of ...

Amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications of DNA barcoding, experts from 46 nations converge in Taipei Sept. 18-20.

Acropora coral less than 2 meters under sea-level at One Tree Reef, One Tree Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef. University of Sydney A recent report said that hurricanes devastated coral reefs ...

WASHINGTON -- Think we know all the fish in the sea? A Smithsonian scientist recently discovered that what we thought were three species of Caribbean fish are actually 10—thanks to modern genetic ...

Coral reefs are crucial for an ocean ecosystem but over the last few years, they have been devastated by hurricanes and disasters. Concerns have been raised to prevent them, most recently by Unesco ...

Most of us are familiar with bar codes, those small black stripes with numbers below, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC label, that appear on commercial products. We scan them at the grocery ...

Over 450 experts in DNA have converged on Adelaide for a conference that has major significance for fishmongers, furniture dealers and life on Earth generally. Andrew Lowe, Professor of Plant ...

The global Fish Barcode of Life Initiative plans to collect at least five representatives each of all 30,000 plus marine and freshwater species in the world. FISH-BOL is part of the global Consortium ...

General fish labels like snapper, sole and seabream take away the power to accurately assess stocks and then distort fishing quotas, but by identifying individual species we could prevent illegal ...

Not long ago, a pair of high school students in Manhattan conducted a science project to check the authenticity of fish sold at New York seafood and sushi restaurants. Of the 60 samples they evaluated ...