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Fox Lab paper on the cover of Arthropod Structure and Development

April 4, 2017

Dr. Jessica Fox, Assistant Professor in Biology, had a paper published in Arthropod Structure and Development. She notes the following: Our paper described the sensory cells at the base of the haltere, a specialized gyroscopic organ in flies. All flies- including house flies, fruit flies, and mosquitoes- have halteres, and...

Dr. Ron Oldfield featured in The Daily for fish discovery

February 13, 2017

Biology faculty member Ron Oldfield featured by Case Daily for the discovery of a fish that uses sneaking behavior as a stealth mating strategy. Read the full article by clicking here.

Jennifer Murphy’s paper highlighted as “Editor’s Choice” at the American Journal of Botany

February 7, 2017

Jennifer Muprhy, a graduate student in Dr. Jean Burn's lab, recently had her paper demonstrating that fixed trait differences, rather than phenotype plasticity are correlated with invasiveness in the Roses named "Editor's Choice" at the American Journal of Botany. Link to the December highlights section: http://www.amjbot.org/content/103/12/2013 Link to the AJB article: http://www.amjbot.org/content/103/12/2058.abstract Picutred top...

New Assistant Professor in Biology, Sarah Bagby, published in PNAS

January 3, 2017

Incoming assistant professor Sarah Bagby is lead author on a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week. The paper, which will be featured on the cover of the journal’s print edition, is the first analysis of the rates of seafloor biodegradation...

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