Researchers developed a forensic proteomics workflow that identified the species origin of hair using protein biomarkers ...

It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, leading scientists are spending two weeks working together to catalog the ...

Testing the system in wastewater The researchers incorporated the barcoding system into bacteriophage P1, a virus known to transfer DNA among enteric bacteria (microorganisms that reside primarily in ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

Dr Robert Puschendorf, Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, used his expertise in the tropical rainforests of ...

A new study has presented an updated estimate of the total number of insect species worldwide. The results suggest that 8 ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

Scientists estimate at least between 14 and 30 million insect species, not just six million.

Most specimens will undergo DNA barcoding — a process that generates a unique genetic identifier for each species — with further in-depth genome sequencing performed on a representative of each ...

An interdisciplinary team of Rice University researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — and their bacterial hosts, offering a ...

Scientists studying Puerto Rico's shark fishery made an unexpected discovery: juvenile scalloped hammerheads being caught ...