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Researchers help pinpoint key events in ancient plant evolution – Research News

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Researchers from the University of Florida and six other institutions have unlocked some of the key foundations for the evolution of seed and flowering plants. The study, to be published online Sunday in Nature, is the first to identify the occurrence of ancient genome duplication events and show
Genome duplications result in organisms having twice as much DNA and an extra copy

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New NSF project aims to help scientists navigate the tree of life – Research News

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A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth did for navigation. A National Science Foundation grant of nearly $1 million will fund a three-year project to develop software that will make the context of every named and unnamed org
clearly linking those names to evolutionary concepts and associated data, including DNA

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Collection – Invertebrate Zoology

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Online Collection Database The >700K specimen lots (2023) available digitally through the online database represent >95% of our collection. Sampled are cataloged with phylum-specific catalog numbers. Specimens from recent surveys are frequently accompanied by tissue samples and images. Tissue
Tissues and genomic DNA are held in cryogenic storage, and most can be accessed online

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Kids Dig Fossils! – Florida Museum Blog

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There is very big science happening at our Montbrook fossil dig site, and although we do have a great variety of volunteers and visitors, we had a very special group come for a tour last week. A class of earth science students from a nearby school came over to see what a paleontology dig is all a
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

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Biology graduate student receives best paper award – Research News

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Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Julie Allen recently received the 2009 Best Paper Award from the University of Florida biology department. Allen won the award for her paper on mutualistic bacteria, which live in some insects. The article appeared in the academic journal PLoS ON
“There is a well-known phenomenon in certain bacteria where mutations in the DNA

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Support the Mammals Collection – Mammals Collection

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From massive whale skeletons to the tiniest shrew teeth, our mammals collection preserves a wide variety of specimens from Florida and around the world. Each specimen in a scientific collection provides a snapshot in time that researchers use to ask questions and gather data. As technology advances,
provide hands-on experience to students learning the ins and outs of fieldwork, DNA

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Houses of silk, poop and plants: Meet the sack-bearer moths – Research News

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Ryan St Laurent, a doctoral student at the Florida Museum’s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, studies an obscure, strange family of moths known as Mimallonidae, or sack-bearer moths. As caterpillars, these insects make houses out of poop, silk and plant material to protect themselves.
technique known as anchored hybrid enrichment can allow researchers to extract as much DNA

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Staff – The Kawahara Lab

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Gina Crespo Research Assistant Email: g.crespo@ufl.edu I recently graduated with a B.S. in biology in the college of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida. I am interested in studying evolution and genetics. At the Kawahara Lab, I have helped with projects focused on moth
the family Saturniidae, created wing vouchers, and will soon begin to assist with DNA

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