A collaborative article by Assistant Professors of Biology, Drs. Sarah Diamond and Ryan Martin, was written about in the NY Times on Monday. You can read the article here:
What Makes a City Ant? Maybe Just 100 Years of Evolution
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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...
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 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
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