Sequencing the lemon shark transcriptome for genetic tools in elasmobranch research
Kevin Feldheim (Pritzker Lab/IRC)
Population dynamics and morphometrics of urban brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) across the Chicagoland region
Noe de la Sancha (Chicago State University) and Felix Grewe (IRC)
Resolving the rapid evolutionary radiation and species limits of African bent-winged bats (Miniopterus), and comparative studies of geographic diversification in Afrotropical Bats
Terry Demos and Bruce Patterson (IRC)
Ancient health and disease in the Andes: microbiomes of ancient inhabitants from the Peruvian coast
Sloan Williams (UIC/FM) and Ryan Williams (IRC)
Birds strikes, bioinformatics, and big data: augmenting the power of a one-of-a-kind dataset
Ben Marks (Collections)
Conservation science to facilitate large-scale expansion of protected area coverage in an Amazonian hotspot
Science Action Rapid Inventories team
Biological and conservation of central Guyana’s Rupununi portal, and identifying aquatic priority conservation areas in Guyana
Lesley De Souza and Nick Kotlinski (Science Action)
Analysis of six new tree plots from Amazonian Peru
Nigel Pitman, Nancy Hensold, and Corine Vriesendorp (Science Action)
A review of rapid inventories’ contributions to the discovery of new plant and animal species
Science Action Rapid Inventories team
Tracking the progress of a deadly amphibian pathogen in Colombia
Michelle Thompson and Nick Kotlinski (Science Action)
Sensory evolution in kingfishers: a combined genomic and phenomic approach
Shannon Hackett and Chad Eliason (IRC)
Complete mitochondrial genome sequencing to reconstruct ancient ivory trade
Lisa Niziolek (IRC)
Variation in the microbial ecosystem of Swainson’s Thrush across the annual cycle
Heather Skeen (U. Chicago/IRC)
Comparative morphology of the gastrointestinal tract in flighted vertebrates
Holly Lutz (UC San Diego/IRC)
Hyperspectral reflectance in plants as a tool for systematics, evolution, and ecology research
Richard Ree (IRC)
The correlated evolution of egg shape and migratory behavior in birds
Valentina Gómez (U. Chicago/IRC) and John Bates (IRC)
Phylogenomics and population history in lowland Neotropical rivers
Caleb McMahan (Collections)
Deconstructing the architecture of lichen interactions
Matthew Nelsen (IRC)
Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical bat diversification
Natalia Cortes Delgao (UIC/IRC)
Population genetics of an understory bird across the Isthmus of Panama
Dylan Maddox (IRC)
Accelerating the pace of scientific discovery: a transformative model of engagement connecting digitized museum collections to biodiversity education through community scientists