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 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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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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