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Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping

...hat is compatible with animal and human health and biodiversity conservation," Gillespie, Chapman and Greiner wrote in the conclusion of their study. ...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

...hat is compatible with animal and human health and biodiversity conservation," Gillespie, Chapman and Greiner wrote in the conclusion of their study. ...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...as that are poorly known but potentially important biodiversity conservation sites. Taking part in this RAP are Po...reatened species found only in this hotspot. The biodiversity hotspots are 34 regions worldwide where 75 percent of the planet's most threatened mammals, birds, a...

Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America

...pecies can lead to homogenous landscapes with less biodiversity and different species proliferating and dominating the ecosystem. For example, when humans almost wiped out wolves and grizzly bears in the United States, the species dynamics shifted. The loss of wolves and grizzlies allowed elk populations to soar...

Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores

...6 species of moon jellyfish, revealing that marine biodiversity is actually much higher than was thought previously," Dr Dawson says, "in retrospect it's easy to see how this wasn't noticed until now. "When you examine moon jellyfish from locations from around the world they look very similar; it's only when you...

Applying ecological laws to bacteria

...ecies present. Scientists previously thought that biodiversity at the microbial level, was fundamentally different to that of larger organisms, such as plants and mammals. This discovery implies that similar processes, which structure the communities of large organisms, also determine those of microbial communit...

UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails

...ave a small lab within the rain forest, collecting biodiversity data and being instantly linked via satellite to the encyclopedia of life. ...

The Antarctic Ocean floor

The biodiversity of the seas and the ocean floors is a mystery for ...nd time on an oceanographic campaign to study this biodiversity of the seas and the ocean floors of the Antarctic. Bellingshausen Sea The expedition, aboard th...

Seaweed yields new compounds with pharmaceutical potential

...uable differences within species, and this genetic biodiversity is important to protect as a resource for the future." Researchers have been analyzing extracts from about 200 marine plant and invertebrate animal samples they collected from the Fijian coral reef in June 2004 with the permission of the Fijian gover...

New book highlights world's borderless conservation areas

...impact on human populations if these areas of rich biodiversity are degraded or lost." The title, "Transboundary ... illustrates methods on how to protect the world's biodiversity and works to promote a culture of environmental awareness within our communities and our society at ...

Why the Amazon rainforest is so rich in species

...n the Amazon rainforest ?it's another piece of the biodiversity puzzle in place. Species split at very different rates, and their extinction or transformation is mostly determined by the ecology and biology of each species. We want to discover more about why some species survive and multiply, while others remain ...

Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health

...rn, threats to freshwater fisheries and associated biodiversity have received scant attention from conservation groups and the media, according to author J. David Allan of the University of Michigan and his colleagues. Allan and colleagues refer to the relative lack of attention to fresh waters as a "dangerous" i...

New book on rain forests, slash-and-burn agriculture

...culture. The loss of the forests threatens Earth's biodiversity and climate. The new book also identifies the costs and benefits of alternative uses of forests and cleared land in several benchmark sites throughout the developing world. It is based on the first decade of work by the Alternatives to Slash-and-Bur...

Underdogs in the understory: Study suggests nature favors rarer trees

...ound the world has revealed that nature encourages biodiversity by favoring the growth of less common trees. The l.... "This research has the surprising finding that biodiversity in tropical rain forests and Minnesota prairies arises from the same kinds of underlying processes. ...

Environmental metagenomics diagnosing extreme environments, tapping opportunities for clean energy

...irector. "We can then survey this vast catalog of biodiversity and harness the microbial pathways that catalyze the conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as wood chips, crop residue, and various grasses, into cleaner sources of energy." One of the systems that DOE JGI characterizing is the microbial co...

Amazon rainforest greens up in the dry season

...ical biomes function and how deforestation affects biodiversity and sustainable land use in the tropics. It will also help scientists better understand the global carbon cycle, which affects the natural sequestration and release of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas. The finding that converted forests grow d...

Study: Competition for sex is a 'jungle out there'

... more good pollinators, especially in species-rich biodiversity hotspots, according to a new study in the Proceedi...s have global implications given the importance of biodiversity hotspots for medicine, food, nutrient cycling, and alternative resources for pollinators of domestic...

Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health

...st. Now, uncovering and categorizing this abundant biodiversity is one of the chief goals of scientists in the field of microbial ecology ?and may be the key to helping the planet –by putting these rich microbial communities to work to help serve the needs of society through environmental biotechnology. Leadin...

Extinctions linked to climate change

... challenges." Very few of the current studies on biodiversity consider how climate affects disease dynamics, sai... effects of climate change, and its true impact on biodiversity will often be underestimated, he said. Five years ago, in a study also published in Nature, OSU sc...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

... in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, two important biodiversity hotspots. Among these, the 10 most popular ports are all found in the Caribbean basin, which includes South Florida, the Caribbean islands, Mexico and Central America ?areas that are home to unique and threatened species and habitats. ...

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