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Pentadactyl amniote limbs have disparate patterns of genetic differentiation of digits. Photographs of right forelimbs at the stages sampled, dorsal perspective.
July 19, 2019
Recent Post Doc Tom Stewart and members of Gunter Wagner’s lab have published a paper in Nature Communications  that discusses the dramatic evolutionary dynamism in the...
May 21, 2019
Arun Chavan and Ignacio Quintero were co-awarded the John Spangler Nicholas Prize for the best dissertation by an E&EB student this year. They were recognized for their...
May 9, 2019
Brett Jesmer, a postdoctoral associate with the Max-Planck Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change, is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious George Mercer...
May 1, 2019
On April 30, 2019, Paul Turner was elected to the the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).    The NAS is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established...
March 12, 2019
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering is a private, nonprofit, public-service institution patterned after the National Academy of Sciences.  Its membership is...
Lonesome George
December 7, 2018
Lonesome George’s species may have died with him in 2012, but he and other giant tortoises of the Galapagos are still providing genetic clues to individual longevity through...