The agony of choice: conservation biology and choosing what to save
You’re a conservationist with a list of threatened species and a limited budget. What are you going to save? Pandas or polar bears? Corals or condors?… Read more »
Kester Jarvis
Kester is an in-house editor for BMC Biology with interests in genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology. His background is in yeast molecular biology.
Latest posts by Kester Jarvis (see all)
- The agony of choice: conservation biology and choosing what to save - 18th March 2014
- Sigma factor networking and bacterial versatility - 30th January 2014
- Electricity generation and fish populations: how a power station provided a rich biological dataset - 4th September 2013
Sigma factor networking and bacterial versatility
In the bacterial RNA polymerase transcription complex, the sigma factors play the role of guide, specifying where in the genome the complex binds – and… Read more »
Electricity generation and fish populations: how a power station provided a rich biological dataset
Many nuclear power stations in the UK are built on the coast, where the easy availability of sea water offers a natural solution to cooling the carbon dioxide… Read more »
Open access and the need to turn data into knowledge
BMC Biology began ten years ago, and BioMed Central three years earlier, right at the beginning of open-access publishing in biology. As part of BMC Biology’s… Read more »
Singing flies and DIY
The musical chirping of crickets will be a familiar sound to readers, but many other insects have their own songs too. In the laboratory stalwart Drosophila… Read more »
Seduction songs, muscular malaise and shifting seaweed: BMC Biology's January research round-up
Songs of seduction deconstructed For most of us, birdsong is charming, or perhaps an annoying wake-up call; for neuroscientists, it is also an important model… Read more »
Singing flies and DIY
The musical chirping of crickets will be a familiar sound to readers, but many other insects have their own songs too. In the laboratory stalwart Drosophila… Read more »
Cell size and evolving eyes: last month in BMC Biology
There were two prominent themes to end the year in BMC Biology – cell geometry, on which we launched a new series; and – entirely fortuitously – the… Read more »
The eloquent mongoose and the structure of language
Readers of this blog will, by virtue of being able to read it at all, be familiar with the complex construction of language: sentences can be broken down into… Read more »
From taxonomy to cybertaxonomy
Earlier this year, the International Committee on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) voted to amend “the Code” that governs how new animal species are named, in… Read more »