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Leyna Stemle from the Searcy lab has published a Herpetological Review note on Gopher Tortoise Vertebrate Commensals along with undergraduates Emory Dunn and Tessa Rogari. researchgate.net/publication/37…

Leyna Stemle of the Searcy lab was asked to be a speaker this past week on the panel titled "Future Everglades Leaders" at the Everglades Coalition Conference. @leynastemle

@alyssakullberg, @kjfeeley, @junglebiology, @NewPhyt

New Phytologist features Alyssa Kullberg's photo at the Boiling River as the cover image, along with her new publication and a perspective article about it by Brad Posch. doi.org/10.1111/nph.19… doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

Leyna Stemle and Chris Searcy had a paper published in Biological Invasions entitled "Habitat characteristics favoring native freshwater turtles in the highly invaded urban turtle community of Miami‑Dade County" doi.org/10.1007/s10530…

Leyna Stemle was a top three winner of the UM GIS day 2023 Digital Exhibit for her StoryMap entitled "Archbold Immature Gopher Tortoises"

Brown's lab paper titled, 'Phylogenetic and protein structure analyses provide insight into the evolution and diversification of the CD36 domain ‘apex’ among scavenger receptor class B proteins across Eukarya', was accepted in Genome Biology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

The McCracken lab published a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.: "Consistent changes in muscle metabolism underlie dive performance across multiple lineages of diving ducks". @jeff_white618

The Afkhami lab published in Nature Ecology and Evolution: "Multidimensional specialization and generalization are pervasive in soil prokaryotes". @DamianMicroEco, @BriannaAlmeida4, @Dr_Hypervolume, @knkiesewetter, @MichelleAfkhami

Jeff White has two papers in print - "Accurate abundance estimation of cliff-breeding Bounty Island shags using drone-based 2D and 3D photogrammetry" and "Plumage colour aberrations in erect-crested penguins (*Eudyptes sclateri*) on Antipodes Island" @jeff_white618

Damian Hernandez received a NSF PRFB fellowship to continue working on genetic mechanisms of context dependency in plant-fungal symbioses with Drs. John Stinchcombe at the University of Toronto and Vasilis Kokkoris at the Free University of Amsterdam. @DamianMicroEco

New article published by the Luque Lab in the journal Microbial Genomics, characterizing the genome and structure of three new species of crassphages, the most frequent viruses in the human gut. doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0…

Zeynab Tabirizi won the Travel Fellowship form the Alzheimer's Association.

Ellery Lennon just had her paper accepted on the declining ecology of the Florida Keys.

Ken Feeley published an article titled "Global warming: plants and animals on the move" in the science-for-kids journal "Frontiers for Young Minds"

Ken Feeley, Manuel Bernal, Riley Fortier and Alyssa Kullberg published a review article in the journal "Plants" titled "Tropical trees will need to acclimate to rising temperatures—but can they?".

@linamaragon got a grant from SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) to study fungi from the Colombian High Andean Forest!

@linamaragon got a grant from SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) to study fungi from the Colombian High Andean Forest.

Last week, Ken Feeley and his former UM graduate student, Catherine Bravo, published a new article on "Variation in the Drought Tolerance of Tropical Understory Plant Communities across an Extreme Elevation and Precipitation Gradient" in the journal Plants.

Aidan O'Brien and Chris Searcy have a new grant from Sonoma County titled "California Tiger Salamander Preserve Productivity on the Santa Rosa Plain". This grant will aid the county's development of a new Habitat Conservation Plan.