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Prashant SharmaGrad student Prashant Sharma received the Don Rozen award of the Willi Hennig Society for his talk at the Hennig XXVII International Meeting in Tucuman, Argentina.
Gonzalo GiribetGonzalo Giribet explained the role of mite harvestmen in National Geographic Channel's Naked Science: "Supercontinent" episode airing on Oct 9, 2008. Program details
Nature coverGonzalo Giribet's phylogenomic sampling research is improving the resolution of the animal tree of life and is featured in the journal Nature's cover story. Abstract 4/10/2008

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Collaborative Research: Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life

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Assembling a stable Animal Tree of Life has become an achievable goal since the recent addition of phylogenomics to the kit of systematists. With this aim in mind we have explored phylogenomic data, mostly based on novel EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) data but also based on available genomic information, of most animal phyla. At the same time we have also developed new strategies for coding morphological information from extant and extinct metazoans and combined them with the phylogenomic data.visitNSF logo