Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: DNA

Hickory horned devils look fierce, but they’re just the caterpillar stage of a beautiful moth. A few weeks ago, a Florida Museum visitor brought this one to us because she found it in her backyard and wasn’t sure what to do with it. After one of our scientists checked it out, and staff took a few
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The Florida Museum is saddened to announce the sudden death of botanist Mark Whitten. Whitten was well known for his love of living things, his collegial spirit and gentle, kind manner. He began his work at the University of Florida in 1981 as a graduate student of Norris Williams, curator eme
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics where he was developing new methods of DNA

Herbarium Methodologies Learn about herbaria and the techniques we use to preserve and study plant specimens. A herbarium is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study. These collections are diverse, including pressed, dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microsc
dried and mounted plants, seeds, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, frozen DNA

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently recognized operations coordinator Kurt Auffenberg as the 2010 recipient of the Thompson Van Hyning Award. The service award, the highest given to museum employees who are not faculty members or students, honors the museum’s first director, Thompson V
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Our last Volunteer Enrichment Workshop of the season was a blast! Nicole Fuller, Collections Manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Environmental Archaeology collections and program, along with our director, Michelle LeFebvre, provided an overview of cutting-edge environmental archaeolog
archaeology geochemical and biochemical analysis techniques (e.g., isotopes, ancient DNA

A new book by Nicolas Delsol, a courtesy faculty member and former researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History, reveals the profound role cattle played in shaping the Americas. Delsol is currently in the Laboratoire d’Archéologie at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. In this book, Delsol
their impact in the Americas by using a broad range of methods, such as ancient DNA

The spindly filaments and coral-like colonies of the ancient phylum of marine animals known as bryozoans likely aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you envision safe and protective child care. But a new study on the 600-million-year history of these obscure animals highlights the import
genetic analyses of invertebrate marine organisms to date, researchers sequenced DNA

In many circles, Dragon Con is legendary. Held every year in Atlanta, Dragon Con is a fandom epicenter where people from around the world gather to celebrate their unique and shared passions for pop-culture. The convention organizers actively welcome a broad swath of interests across sci-fi and fant
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In an effort to connect with the public about the quickly declining populations of sawfish worldwide, International Sawfish Day was created in partnership with the Sawfish Conservation Society and the European and American Associations of Zoos and Aquariums. Here at the Florida Museum, we host th
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Florida Museum of Natural History student François Michonneau recently received a $15,000 National Science Foundation grant to research sea cucumbers in Japan. The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant program provides partial support for projects to improve the quality of research in the b
by combining physical evidence from the specimens he collects, with a complete DNA