The global Fish Barcode of Life Initiative plans to collect at least five representatives each of all 30,000 plus marine and freshwater species in the world. FISH-BOL is part of the global Consortium ...

Most 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 at the grocery ...

DNA barcoding in Taipei, Part 2 I spent Monday listening to ichthyologists and fisheries biologists discuss their efforts to barcode the planet?s fish species (an initiative called the Fish barcode of ...

Validation of large chromosomal segment deletions by chromosome painting. (a, b) FISH assays of the chr2 barcode probes and chr2 painting probes on metaphase chromosomes prepared from LeiTing. The ...

Not long ago, a pair of high school students in Manhattan conducted a science project to check the authenticity of fish sold at New York seafood and sushi restaurants. Of the 60 samples they evaluated ...