{"id":91764,"date":"2019-06-08T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T08:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/180-million-dna-barcode-project-aims-to-discover-2-million-new-species"},"modified":"2019-06-08T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T08:42:30","slug":"180-million-dna-barcode-project-aims-to-discover-2-million-new-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/180-million-dna-barcode-project-aims-to-discover-2-million-new-species","title":{"rendered":"$180 million DNA \u2018barcode\u2019 project aims to discover 2 million new species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/180-million-dna-barcode-project-aims-to-discover-2-million-new-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For centuries biologists have identified new species at a painstakingly slow pace, describing specimens\u2019 physical features and other defining traits, and often trying to fit a species into the tree of life before naming and publishing it. Now, they have begun to determine whether a specimen is likely a novel species in hours\u2014and will soon do so at a cost of pennies. It\u2019s a revolution driven by short stretches of DNA\u2014dubbed barcodes in a nod to the familiar product identifiers\u2014that vary just enough to provide species-distinguishing markers, combined with fast, cheap DNA sequencers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As massive global effort launches, portable DNA sequencers also allow species identification in the field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/06\/180-million-dna-barcode-project-aims-discover-2-million-new-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries biologists have identified new species at a painstakingly slow pace, describing specimens\u2019 physical features and other defining traits, and often trying to fit a species into the tree of life before naming and publishing it. Now, they have begun to determine whether a specimen is likely a novel species in hours\u2014and will soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}