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Molecular Lab

Tragopogon miscellus, AKA "John-go-to-bed-at-noon."

Evolution

Flowering plant study ‘catches evolution in the act’

March 17, 2011

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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Amborella trichopoda

News in Brief

Behind the scenes: sequencing genome of ancient flowering plant

December 15, 2010

Meet the University of Florida researchers who are part of a nationwide team preparing to open a door into a…
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tiny flowers and leaves being held

Evolution

UF researchers help sequence genome of ancient flowering plant

December 1, 2010

In a letter to his friend and colleague, 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin referred to the sudden and rapid diversification…
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herbarium plant specimen

Awards & Honors

Graduate student receives biology teaching award

May 10, 2010

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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herbarium flower specimen

Awards & Honors

Graduate student receives NSF research fellowship award

August 31, 2009

Florida Museum graduate student Maribeth Latvis recently received a 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is given…
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pink flower on green foliage against the sky

Evolution

An early bloom of evolution

May 1, 2009

Florida Museum researchers find that a rapid burst of flowering plants 90 million years ago set the stage for bursts…
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planted pine forrest

Life on Earth

Non-native reforestation brings risk of hybridization in Andes

January 1, 2009

Far up in the Ecuadorian Andes, human encroachment is steadily overtaking Polylepis forests, a distinctive and ecologically important feature of…
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Doug & Pam Soltis

Evolution

Flowering plants evolved quickly into five groups

August 1, 2008

Florida Museum of Natural History and University of Texas at Austin scientists have shed light on what Charles Darwin called…
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pink lily against dark water

Evolution

Botanists create “supertree” of evolution for flowering plants

May 1, 2004

A group of scientists has created the first comprehensive evolutionary reconstruction of the many families of flowering plants, an achievement…
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