A team of Italian and Dutch scientists have used DNA barcoding to identify a previously unnamed leafminer moth that is infesting vineyards across northern Italy.Read more
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Barcode shows destructive pest has landed in Germany
Researchers have produced the first genetic evidence that the destructive spotted wing Drosophila fruit fly has invaded southern Germany.Read more
Highlights Report celebrates a year of progress in barcoding
Barcoding Life – Highlights 2011 – an iBOL-CBOL joint effort – documents a year of outstanding achievement by the global barcoding enterprise. Read more
Testing the waters for environmental barcoding
In the Barcode Bulletin newsletter, read how a California research project is helping to revolutionize the business of environmental bioassessment. Read the Barcode Bulletin
Spectacular butterfly species radiation in the Caribbean
Researchers using barcodes have discovered spectacular evolutionary divergence in the neotropical butterfly genus Calisto. Read more
Barcodes prove it’s ashark-eat-shark world
Scientists have used DNA barcodes and the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) database to show that deepwater sharks eat everything from human discards to other sharks. Read more…
No worming out of the worminess in mescal
Even if you don’t swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal, you may not have avoided the worm’s DNA. Read more…
