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Scientists sequence 1,100 plants, illuminating 1 billion years of evolution – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-sequence-1100-plants/

Plants are evolutionary champions, dominating Earth’s ecosystems for more than a billion years and making the planet habitable for countless other life forms, including us. Now, scientists have completed a nine-year genetic quest to shine a light on the long, complex history of land plants and green
everything is interrelated,” said Gane Ka-Shu Wong, lead investigator of 1KP and professor

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Visiting Researchers – McGuire Center

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/mcguire/news/2022/04/visiting-researchers/

The McGuire Center hosts numerous visiting researchers throughout the year. With the easing of travel restrictions, the past two months have been an enjoyable and busy time at the Center with several old friends and colleagues stopping by for quick visits while on spring break and others joining us
Tomasz Pyrcz, Professor of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, spent

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Researchers discover ‘green’ pesticide effective against citrus pests – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/researchers-discover-green-pesticide-effective-against-citrus-pests/

Florida Museum researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars that threaten the citrus industry. The Lime Swallowtail, or Citrus Swallowtail, is a well-known agricultural pest from southern Asia discovered in th
is toxic to crop-destructive caterpillars,” said study co-author Bruce Stevens, professor

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Get Involved – Herpetology Collection

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/herpetology/people/get-involved/

​There is no undergraduate or graduate program specifically in herpetology at the University of Florida. However, we have many UF students with interests in herpetology that take courses from and work with faculty in the Departments of Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and the Florida Muse
primary course on herpetology is taught by Curator David Blackburn and Assistant Professor

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New study shows scientists improve communication, education skills after working with teachers – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-study-shows-scientists-improve-communication-education-skills-after-working-with-teachers/

Every summer from 2012 to 2016, Bruce MacFadden and a team of scientists accompanied K-12 teachers on an expedition to collect fossils around the Panama Canal. During this National Science Foundation funded professional development program, educators learned from paleontologists how to identify foss
into the field reenergized us about our own work,” said MacFadden, distinguished professor

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Saving McCarty Woods – Laboratory of Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/soltis-lab/2021/11/16/saving-mccarty-woods/

Written by: Roxanne Hoorn The Florida Museum of Natural History (FM) is promoting biodiversity and conservation efforts around the world, but staff and students are making sure we don’t forget about our own precious natural areas, right here on the University of Florida campus. “I mean, here we ar
Doug Soltis, Distinguished Professor at the Florida Museum and the Department of

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Study finds cats No. 1 predator to urban mockingbird nests – Research News

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A new University of Florida study shows cats are the dominant predator to mockingbird eggs and nestlings in urban areas, prompting conservationists to urge pet owners to keep felines indoors at night. The findings challenge assumptions that urban areas are places of refuge for nesting mockingbird
about the effects cities have on native birds,” said Stracey, now an assistant professor

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