Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: DNA

Earlier this year, the Florida Museum of Natural History welcomed Catherine Smith as its first full-time NAGPRA coordinator. Smith has extensive experience in archaeology and U.S. policy regarding the proper stewardship and respectful return of human remains and certain cultural objects under the Na
Although she’d initially been drawn by the prospect of learning ancient DNA sequencing

A group of Florida Museum of Natural History scientists has issued a “call to action” to use big data to tackle longstanding questions about plant diversity and evolution and forecast how plant life will fare on an increasingly human-dominated planet. In a commentary published today in Nature Pla
global level, thanks to the development of databases such as GenBank, which stores DNA

What came first the lichen or the mushroom? How do we know if a mushroom is safe to eat? What is the future of mushrooms on a changing planet? These are just a few of the thoughtful questions that populated the Zoom chat space during the very first VIRTUAL Mushrooms with the Museum event on Sunda
We know this from the scientific work done by researchers and DNA sequencing from

What is a herbarium? A herbarium (Latin: hortus siccus) is a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study, usually in the form of dried and pressed plants mounted on paper. The dried and mounted plant samples are generally referred to as herbarium specimens. Other materials in the herb
algae, fungi, wood sections, pollen, microscope slides, silica-stored materials, DNA

This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on the KAUST Red Sea cruise. You can read more from him at www.naturenoah.com. “Thousands of miles from home, hundreds of miles from our institution, and thirty miles from any solid lan
for the specimens, that is – science is too fun to take breaks), photography, DNA

The University of Florida Herbarium, FLAS, is a unit of the Department of Natural History of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences provides financial support for the inter-institutional loan program of the vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal
herbarium sheets may be removed for destructive analysis purposes such as SEM, DNA

Your bird field guide may be out of date now that Florida Museum of Natural History scientists discovered a new genus of frogmouth bird on a South Pacific island. New genera of living birds are rare discoveries — fewer than one per year is announced globally. David Steadman and Andrew Kratte
coauthors to a study analyzing the frogmouth’s morphology, or physical form, and DNA

Rewind 300 years and imagine you are a Spanish colonist in Florida fleeing for your life to the protection of St. Augustine’s fortified walls. Or maybe you are a Native American desperate to escape the relentless assaults of slave raiders descending from the Carolinas. You pack in haste. You leave m
communities used the Caribbean Sea as an aquatic highway Cultural Heritage Oldest DNA

For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, too. A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths use sonic pulses from their genitals to respond to bats producing the high-fre
organisms so that we have a record of their behavior along with the specimen and DNA

The Florida Museum of Natural History has appointed Keith Willmott director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, one of the world’s premier research institutes dedicated to butterflies and moths. Willmott, a curator who specializes in Neotropical butterflies, succeeds Jaret Dan
McGuire Center collections, including the frozen tissue collection used in generating DNA