Nibbles: Liberia
Barcoding timber trees, and tapping rubber, in Liberia.
Are species like cans of soup?
A longish article in the latest Wired does what seems to this untutored eye a good job of describing the controversy about barcoding. Here’s the case against in a nutshell: “We’re not accusing Hebert of being a creationist, just of acting like one,” says Brent Mishler. and the case for: The space ship lands. He …
Setting the bar
And here’s another fun blog which the one mentioned in the previous post alerted me to. “The Barcode Blog” is “about short DNA sequences for species identification and discovery.” It’s been going for a couple of years but a quick search revealed only one agriculture-related posting, which had to do with the use of barcoding …