I am a Distinguished Professor in the Florida Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology at the University of Florida. My research interests in plant biology are diverse—we study plant evolution using modern DNA approaches including next generation sequencing methods and the use of “big dat
This work showed that the classical ABC model (Arabidopsis
A more reliable way of estimating the size of megalodon shows the extinct shark may have been bigger than previously thought, measuring up to 65 feet, nearly the length of two school buses. Earlier studies had ball-parked the massive predator at about 50 to 60 feet long. The revised estimate is t
combined width of each tooth in a row, they developed a model
Written by: Roxanne Hoorn The Florida Museum of Natural History (FM) is promoting biodiversity and conservation efforts around the world, but staff and students are making sure we don’t forget about our own precious natural areas, right here on the University of Florida campus. “I mean, here we ar
“Making McCarty a model that then can be applied more
Every summer from 2012 to 2016, Bruce MacFadden and a team of scientists accompanied K-12 teachers on an expedition to collect fossils around the Panama Canal. During this National Science Foundation funded professional development program, educators learned from paleontologists how to identify foss
“In this model, the teachers and scientists collaborate
Sourakov volunteered at the American Museum of Natural History in 1991, where he received additional training in Lepidoptera taxonomy and worked on his first taxonomic revision. He received his M.S. (1994) and Ph. D. (1997) in Entomology from the University of Florida. After his postdoc terms
Using Lepidoptera as a model group, he tries to answer
Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall 1659 Museum Road Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800 352-273-2114 vmathis@flmnh.ufl.edu Collection Mammalogy Education Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University M.S., Wildlife Sciences, New Mexico State University B.S., Zo
systematics, phylogeography, and biogeography in non-model
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Heliconius Butterflies Heliconius Butterflies are a model
Family name: Papilionidae/Swallowtails General description: Male forewing velvety black; hindwing with single tail, iridescent blue-green scaling and single submarginal row of pale spots. Female duller black with more prominent pale spot band. Ventral hindwing black with iridescent blue-green
Adults serve as distasteful model to several other
Among the things that can make curating collections fun is coming across various biological phenomena. This week, I was sorting some North American swallowtail butterflies and promptly came across the phenomenon of mimicry, exemplified in this photo of the toxic Pipe-vine swallowtail and its various
Which one is the model and which ones are mimics?
Feeding Giants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4Em8ssHE0 Surreal Cerebral https://youtu.be/lyqNOlKqVt4 Flocculation of Yeast https://youtu.be/hPKou3mVsY0 Berlin in Hyperlapse – A Time & Motion Study https://youtu.be/fhn33-mxIMM Leopards in India https://youtu.be/srT
Lettuce 100 Valid Floridas Fabrication of Kinesthetic Model
