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Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta recently presented research in Dallas and at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Cynthia Downs is the lead author of a recently published paper in Trends in Parasitology titled “Scaling of Host Competence.”
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A paper titled “A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life,” co-authored by Scholar-in-Residence Simon Coppard, was recently published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
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This year Hamilton welcomed six new tenure-track faculty members. Communications office student writer Majestic Terhune ’21 spent more than two hours interviewing these newest members of the faculty to find out why they chose Hamilton and what they think so far. Here’s her interview with Rhea Datta, assistant professor of biology. (Some answers edited for brevity.)
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A story published by the Florida Museum of Natural History about a 37-year survey of monarch populations in North Central Florida shows that caterpillars and butterflies have been declining since 1985 and have dropped by 80 percent since 2005.
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Approximately 30 students and parents had the unusual opportunity to see more than two dozen northern saw-whet owls on college land beyond the glen.
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A paper co-authored by Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta was recently published in the peer reviewed journal eLife. “Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the Bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development” found that two mutations that arose 140 million years ago changed the function of a critical developmental gene, which now regulates development of the head and other structures in virtually all species of present-day flies.
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“A long-term survey of spring monarch butterflies in north-central Florida,” co-authored by Ernest Williams, appears in the current issue of the Journal of Natural History.
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Simon Coppard, scholar-in-residence in biology, recently published a research paper titled “Gene expression across tissues, sex, and life stages in the sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla” in the journal Marine Genomics.
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