The mammals collection staff and students contribute to museum exhibits and media presentations about research projects, and students regularly do presentations on their works and public outreach.
In the laboratory, we extract DNA from each louse and use it to compare human louse
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Megan Ennes, curator of museum education at the Florida Museum of Natural History, has been named a 2024-2026 research fellow by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ennes was selected as a fellow in education research through the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program.
Woods on UF Campus Evolution Ferns finally get a genome, revealing a history of DNA
The National Science Foundation announced today its award of a $10 million grant to the University of Florida and Florida State University to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitize the nation’s biological collections. Available to anyone online, the natural history data and i
associated organisms, geographic distribution, environmental habitat and specimen DNA
A Florida Museum of Natural History researcher has received $150,000 from the National Science Foundation to study endangered moth species in Hawaii that haven’t been seen for nearly 100 years and were believed to be extinct. Assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara and his team will trave
Florida Museum photo by Chris Johns Kawahara and his team plan to map the moths’ DNA
If you eat fruits or vegetables, how often do you think about their history? Former University of Florida post-doctoral researcher Zhen Fan did, as he traced the strawberry back over centuries. In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Fan, now a faculty mem
“The modern strawberry has about four times as much DNA as the most ancient wild
Database Standards Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) (formerly the Taxonomic Database Working Group) – develops standards and protocols for sharing biodiversity data. Darwin Core Schemas and Protocols Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) – schema/protocol. Biological
to a variety of data on voucher specimens, taxonomy, bibliography, morphology, DNA
Early in May 2023, a small team of marine biologists arrived in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. They’d flown into the local airport from Guam, the United States, Portugal, Spain and Japan, and they’d soon rendezvous with colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST
Special enzymes pick out the DNA strands, which Carvalho and her team then use to
Early Turkey Domestication Project Investigators: Erin Thornton and Kitty Emery The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is one of the most important food birds in the world, and the only indigenous animal domesticated in North/Central America. Despite the turkey’s importance to both ancient and modern
The project is inter-disciplinary: integrating zooarchaeological, isotopic, and DNA
The iconic eyespots that some moths and butterflies use to ward off predators likely evolved in distinct ways, providing insights into how these insects became so diverse. A new study manipulated early eyespot development in moth pupae to test whether this wing pattern develops similarly in butte
Looking at DNA isn’t enough.
