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Arctic scientists look to local support for projects sidelined by COVID-19
The Globe and Mail – Ivan Semeniuk
Four possible new species of spider and others previously unknown in Canada found in Nunavut
Nunatsiaq News – Elaine Anselmi
New effort to catalogue Arctic biodiversity depends on ‘DNA barcodes’
Nunatsiaq News – John Thompson
Guelph professor preserving life for future generations through $180M DNA barcoding project
Guelph Today – Anam Khan
U of Guelph’s DNA barcode centre catalogues Earth’s biodiversity
University Affairs – Diane Peters
U of G Scientists Collecting Specimens, Monitoring Biodiversity in the North
University of Guelph
Press Releases
Meet Arctic BIOSCAN's
2022 Field Technicians
International Barcode of Life
Arctic BIOSCAN Team Prepares for a New Field Season in Nunavut
International Barcode of Life
Arctic Bioscan recognizes ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓ (Nunavut Day)
Arctic BIOSCAN News
Survey of an Arctic Arthropod Community and Implications for Further Monitoring
International Barcode of Life
DNA Barcoding in the Canadian Arctic Receives a $1.8 million Boost from Polar Knowledge Canada
International Barcode of Life
Major scientific program BIOSCAN aims to provide data to address biodiversity loss, prompting international response
International Barcode of Life
Publications
deWaard JR, S Ratnasingham, EV Zakharov, AV Borisenko, D Steinke, et al. (2019) A reference library for the identification of Canadian invertebrates: 1.5 million DNA barcodes, voucher specimens, and genomic samples. Scientific Data 6: 308. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0320-2
McMullin, R (2019) New and interesting Canadian lichens and allied fungi II: Reports from British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and Quebec. Opuscula Philolichenum. 18: 396–419.
Pentinsaari M, Blagoev GA, Hogg ID, Levesque-Beaudin V, Perez K, Sobel CN, Vandenbrink B, Borisenko A (2020) A DNA barcoding survey of an Arctic arthropod community: Implications for future monitoring. Insects 11 (1): 46. doi.org/10.3390/insects11010046
Schneider S, Taylor GW, Kremer SC, Burgess P, McGroarty J, Mitsui K, Zhuang A, deWaard JR, Fryxell JM (2022) Bulk arthropod abundance, biomass and diversity estimation using deep learning for computer vision. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 346 – 357. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13769
Media Contact
Arctic Bioscan is a part of the BIOSCAN research program headed by the iBOL Consortium. BIOSCAN will involve more than 1000 researchers from over 30 countries to employ DNA barcodes to speed species discovery, to probe species interactions, and to track species dynamics.
Hannah James
Manager – Media and Strategic Communications
hjames@ibol.org