Flowering plant study ‘catches evolution in the act’
A new Florida Museum study shows when two flowering plants are crossed to produce a new hybrid, the new species’ genes are…
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Behind the scenes: sequencing genome of ancient flowering plant
Meet the University of Florida researchers who are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a…
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UF researchers help sequence genome of ancient flowering plant
In a letter to his friend and colleague, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin referred to the sudden and rapid diversification…
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Graduate student receives biology teaching award
Florida Museum of Natural History graduate student Paul Corogin recently received the University of Florida biology department’s Graduate Student 2009…
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Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award
Florida Museum graduate student Maribeth Latvis recently received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is given…
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An early bloom of evolution
Florida Museum researchers find that a rapid burst of flowering plants 90 million years ago set the stage for bursts…
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Non-native reforestation brings risk of hybridization in Andes
Far up in the Ecuadorian Andes, human encroachment is steadily overtaking Polylepis forests, a distinctive and ecologically important feature of…
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Flowering plants evolved quickly into five groups
Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called…
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Botanists create “supertree” of evolution for flowering plants
A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement…
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