Some animals fashion tools or constructions out of plant materials to aid foraging, reproduction, self-maintenance, or protection. Their choice of raw materials can affect the structure and properties ...

Animal-based traditional medicine not only plays a significant role in therapeutic practices worldwide but also provides a potential compound library for drug discovery. However, persistent hunting ...

DNA barcoding can help identify the plant species that New Caledonian crows use as tools, according to a study. Although the raw materials selected by animals for tool manufacture affect tool ...

Discover why zoology is referred to as the 'Scribe of Species.' Discover the various job pathways available to zoologists in ...

Aimed at sharpening conservation efforts, the international Barcode of Life (iBoL) project on Monday launched its Lab-in-a-Box portable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) barcoding kit, which enables rapid ...

We report an approach to barcode cells through cell-surface expression of programmable zinc-finger DNA-binding domains (surface zinc fingers, sZFs). We show that sZFs enable sequence-specific labeling ...

The plant barcoding group meeting here at the end of the 2nd International Barcode of Life Conference in Taipei was as addled with confusion and obfuscation as I had heard it might be. In supreme ...

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