News articles tagged with 'taxonomist'
Study finds remarkable diversity of lichen species in Florida state park
— 28 Mar 2011 17:07 | BiologyIf you seek America's most diverse, densely packed human population, head for New York's Manhattan, but if it's lichens you fancy instead of people, then Southwestern Florida is your…
Scientists select new species for top 10 list; issue SOS
— 22 May 2010 09:35 | BiologyThe International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists - scientists responsible for species exploration and classification…
Linnaeus 2.0: First E-publication of new plant species
— 6 May 2010 13:53 | BiologyFour new Neotropical plant species in the hyperdiverse genus Solanum (Solanaceae), which includes plants as diverse as the deadly nightshade as well as the more palatable tomato have…
Online collaboration identifies bacteria
— 20 Feb 2009 14:20 | BiologyA new website has been launched which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the identification of bacterial strains. This new resource, described in the open access journal…
Scientists describe new species of water mite using confocal microscopy
— 24 Jul 2008 13:02 | BiologyThe new genus and species of water mite called 'Vagabundia sci' by Antonio Valdecasas, researcher from the National Museum of Natural Sciences, is the first parasite of its kind analysed…
Scientists help build a global reference library of DNA barcodes
— 19 Apr 2008 18:13 | BiologyMost 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…
Divers find new species in Aleutians
— 3 Nov 2007 03:50 | BiologyThere are unknown creatures lurking under the windswept islands of the Aleutians, according to a team of scientific divers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This summer, while…
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