Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: 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

My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.
of Bahamian tortoises and eventually resulted in the first extraction of ancient DNA

Several years ago a University of Florida librarian handed me a copy of a recently donated 1873 newspaper article taken from the New York Weekly Sun. Unsigned, the article included a wonderful account of a visit to Turtle Mound, an archaeological site in modern Volusia County, just south of New Smyr
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Dragons are everywhere. Rachel Keeffe knows this. She recently talked to UF News about dragons on the Game of Thrones series. If dragons could exist, what would they look like? How and where would they thrive? Rachel is currently a herpetology Ph.D. student at the Florida Museum/UF departm
: Ray and Kirk dig Florida Creative Outreach: TreeTender at Dragon Con Cattle DNA

The remnants of an Indian village destroyed by war almost two centuries ago reveal the Seminoles were actually blending into the American melting pot before they were driven to the swamps of South Florida, say Florida Museum of Natural History researchers. In a search for clues to what life w
Milanich You Might Also Like Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA reveals an early African

Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a Florida Museum of Natural History researcher. Determining whether the firs
“I’m not a Steven Spielberg type in that I don’t believe that DNA would bring

Three grants from the National Science Foundation will support new discoveries at the University of Florida Herbarium, housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The herbarium, also known by the acronym FLAS, is the oldest and largest plant collection in the state and among the largest Neotrop
researchers from Europe, Asia, South America and the Caribbean to sequence the DNA

It’s that time of year when children make cardboard turkeys and draw the Mayflower, while we prepare to fill our tables with stuffing and pumpkin pie the way most of us imagine the Pilgrims did at the first Thanksgiving in 1621. But there’s just one catch, according to archaeologists at the Flori
iron from different periods of America’s colonial past Cultural Heritage Ancient DNA

Below are selected publications. Details on all publications can be found on Google Scholar. ORCID ID: orcid 0000-0002-3724-4610, ResearchGate Profile
Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species.

Research Freshwater Snails of Florida – A project seeking to identify, illustrate and map all freshwater snails in Florida. PEET: Sea cucumbers on coral reefs, systematics of aspidochirotid holothurians – A project aimed to greatly improve our understanding of aspidochirotid systematics through
Reef-associated crustacean fauna: Biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA