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Snail venom study gives insights into biodiversity's origins
Professor Tom Duda and his former postdoc,
Ed Remigio published a study in the February issue of Molecular Ecology
on the evolution of venoms of predatory marine snails.
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A research team headed by Professor Diarmaid Ó Foighil, published "Prehistoric inter-archipelago trading of Polynesian tree snails leaves a conservation legacy" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Read the U-M News press release.
Congratulations to Joseph Brown who was awarded EEB's most outstanding publication award for "Strong mitochondrial DNA support for a Cretaceous origin of modern avian lineages." The paper was published in the journal BMC Biology 6:6. (more)
Connallon awarded Tinkle Scholarship Tim Connallon has been awarded the Donald W. Tinkle Scholarship from the U-M Museum of Zoology. (more)
House mouse genes provide clues to reproductive isolation mysteries
In the December 2007 issue of Genome Research,
Professor Priscilla Tucker and her colleagues report their preliminary findings based on an analysis of 42 genetic
markers in the house mouse species, Mus musculus and Mus domesticus. (Download PDF (392KB))
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