What are the latest developments?
- Expedition nets 10 000 plus species - 23 October 2010
They had hoped to collect around 1 500 species on their groundbreaking DNA expedition to South Africa’s biodiversity hotspots – but they came home with thousands more.
- DNA barcode library to launch in Toronto - 25 September 2010
- Building a digital library for life on Earth - 24 September 2010
- CN Tower to Double as DNA Barcode - 24 September 2010
An international consortium of geneticists on Saturday will activate a DNA barcode library in Toronto representing almost 80,000 species, the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) announced.
Toronto's CN Tower will be spectacularly illuminated as the world's biggest DNA barcode to mark the Official Launch of the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL). Ontario's Minister of Research and Innovation, Glen Murray, will launch iBOL at the CN Tower on Saturday, September 25. (Note: the illuminated barcode will be visible on the Tower after darkness falls, approximately 7:00 pm)
- Barcoding Life - 11 August 2010
The CN Tower will be illuminated Sept. 25 to look like the world’s biggest DNA Barcode as part of the official launch of the University of Guelph-based International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL).
- Frog Killer Caught in the Act: DNA Barcoding Reveals Five Undiscovered Frog Species Among 30 Wiped out by Fungal Epidemic - Sciencedaily.com - 20 July 2010
The first before-and-after view of an amphibian die-off has just been published by scientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the University of Maryland.
- Unique way to document all SA species - Pretoria News - 20 July 2010
Researchers are planning a 17-day expedition to document animal and plant species in South Africa's biodiversity hot spots, University of Johannesburg spokesman Herman Esterhuizen said yesterday.
- Frog killer caught in the act - EurekAlert - 19 July 2010
A killer has been caught in the act: the first before-and-after view of an infectious disease that led to an amphibian die-off has been released by the scientists who track it.
- Deepwater Shark Diets Includes Other Sharks - Discovery News - 13 July 2010
One of the most extensive studies on the diets of deepwater sharks reveals these toothy animals may eat everything from discards tossed off commercial fishing vessels to other sharks.
- For every species, a barcode: Guelph professor traces scientific breakthrough to grocery-store revelation - GuelphMercury - 28 June 2010
Guelph - On a warm summer night, you should find Paul Hebert in the backyard of his Puslinch home, gathering small moths in a trap.
- The Big Idea - National Geographic - May 2010
If you turn on a light at night in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, says Paul Hebert, you will collect some 2,000 species of moth.
- Creating a new vision of life - Ottawa Citizen - 25 May 2010
In a world beset with pandemics and pest infestations, the potential of DNA bar-coding is profound, writes Kathryn May.
- The Barcode of Life Project - On Nature - Summer 2010
At Ontario's Biodiversity Institute, scientists are using cutting-edge technology to catalogue every plant and animal on earth in what may be one of the world's most ambitious biodiversity conservation initiatives.
Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far north.
