Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: DNA

It’s always lovely to change over to a new year. The DE team started with some mini sessions of department time to reflect on what we worked on in 2023, breaking down our wins and challenges. We then looked ahead at the upcoming year, identifying our internal goals, scheduling anticipated Museum pro
Cattle DNA: Nicolas and the NSF podcast: In the wake of the wildly popular story

Native snakes play an important role as natural predators in many of Florida’s ecosystems. Kingsnakes were once common in Paynes Prairie just outside of Gainesville, but are now difficult to find there. Summary Florida Kingsnake (Lampropeltis floridana x getula; Hybrid) From Alachua Co., Florid
It was thought that there was only one species in our state, but recent DNA and morphological

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document Thailand’s rich diversity of freshwater fish. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by former Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright
DNA sequencing can play a crucial role in providing accurate species descriptions

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: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

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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Objectives Build a phylogenetic hypothesis with genomic DNA sequence data to investigate

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

The Florida Program for Shark Research (FPSR), directed by Dr. Gavin Naylor and staffed by a team of research scientists and educators, includes the Chondrichthyan Tree of Life Project, the International Shark Attack File (ISAF), the International Sawfish Encounter Database (ISED) and hosts the pree
Chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras) through anatomical, DNA

Congratulations to our photographer Kristen Grace for placing in the 2022 Faces of Biology Photo Contest! The competition showcases biological research in its many forms and settings and is sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Society for Integrative and Compara
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
assigned in the field which links a particular specimen with it’s photograph and DNA