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As part of a broader effort to investigate genomic diversity and evolutionary patterns within the Brassicales, my recent research has focused on Tiganophyton karasense, a monotypic genus endemic to the arid Karas Region of southern Namibia. This species, described only in 2020, is phylogenetically i
We collected fresh leaf tissue for DNA and RNA extraction to generate a high-quality
McGuire Center staff and volunteers were excited to make their first two trips to UF’s new DeLuca Preserve in Osceola County, Florida. We are surveying the moth and butterfly fauna of this 27,000-acre Preserve and gathering baseline data for long-term monitoring of rare and declining taxa. Data may
In addition, a DNA barcode library is being assembled using freshly collected samples
To the west stretched the vast expanse of the Caribbean Sea; to the north rose the magnificent Pitons, the symbol of St. Lucia. In April 2004, a pick-up truck deposited our field team at the foot of one of many hills that form a corrugated landscape along the island’s western shore. We would walk 3.
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Kathleen Deagan, a Distinguished Research Curator Emeritus of Historical Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, discusses the Fort Mose excavation and its importance. Founded in 1738, Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned town of free black people in what is today the United Sta
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The McGuire Center was privileged to host visiting researchers in October and November 2023, through the Mr. Carl Wisler and Dr. Midge Smith Visiting Researcher Endowment. Roy Goff traveled from his home base in England to photograph several hundred species of Sub-Saharan African moths in our colle
Marcela Diaz Zamora working on collecting tissue samples of Papilionidae for future DNA
They seem similar at first glance, but it turns out the indigo snakes found on Florida’s Atlantic and Gulf coasts are not two of a kind. Ten years of research by Florida Museum of Natural History scientists led to new information about the origins of Florida’s largest native snake species, wh
Study researchers were able to discern the two lineages by studying their DNA, said
Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen collected in 1949. It was later rediscovered in the wild in the 1980s, though due to its limited numbers, the future of this spiny shrub is uncertain. Summary Florida Jujube (Pseudoziziphus
Finally, it is interesting that recent studies of DNA-sequence variation have shown
Butterflies have been objects of scientific research for hundreds of years, but information about the popular insects is scattered across the world in books, research papers and museum collections. Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History aim to gather everything known about butter
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Directory Structure and Files When PLabel for Windows is installed from PLWin.Zip the following directory structure is created: PLWin data – Label data files may be stored in this directory. If you create a PLWin-data directory at the same level as PLWin the program f
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